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Year 9 · English

Awareness Of Spelling Patterns And Rules

Year 9 learners practise spelling rules ie and ei words and dictionary skills.

The activities include Revise Your Dictionary Skills, Revise Your Spelling: Words Containing 'ie' and 'ei', Revise Your Spelling: Words Ending in -ious and -eous. The checked support below includes worksheet, teaching, video. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Revise Your Dictionary Skills
  • Revise Your Spelling: Words Containing 'ie' and 'ei'
  • Revise Your Spelling: Words Ending in -ious and -eous

Checked learning resources

  • Spelling

    BBC Bitesize · Worksheet · Opens on the provider website

    BBC KS3 English explanations, examples and practice for Awareness Of Spelling Patterns And Rules, including dictionary use; selected against the complete context of "Revise Your Dictionary Skills".

  • National curriculum in England: English programmes of study

    GOV.UK · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    The official KS3 English programme gives the year-appropriate reading, writing, grammar and spoken-language expectations relevant to "Revise Your Dictionary Skills".

  • How to Use a Dictionary

    YouTube — Merriam-Webster · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Focused lesson explains alphabetical navigation, headwords, definitions, pronunciation and usage information.

  • I Before E or E Before I: Rules and Examples

    YouTube — Akash Vukoti · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Spelling lesson applies ie and ei patterns and recognises common exceptions.

  • Suffixes -ous, -eous and -ious Explained Simply

    YouTube — Brainyahia · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Focused spelling lesson distinguishes and applies the -ious and -eous endings in words.