TEAS- Use conventions of standard English spelling

Common rules for English spelling?

(e.g. I before E, dropping the final E, changing the final Y to I, doubling a final consonant)

identify common words that are exceptions to common rules for English spelling? I before E rule?

(e.g. receive, vein, height, protein, neither, caffeine, weird, reign, their)

Homograph

Words spelled the same but that have different meanings

Homophone

Words pronounced the same but that have different meanings

Mnemonic

A pattern OR other device to help remember something

Pleural

More than one (1)

Homophones example

1. Ate/eight

2. Bare/bear

3. Hole/whole

4. Its/it's

5. Seam/seem

Homographs example

1. Bat- a piece of sporting equipment/ a winged animal

2. Bow- To bend at the waste/a pair of tied hoops

3. Content- Happy/ all that is contained within something

4. Digest- A condensed version of a text/to process food

5. Minute- 60 seconds of time/ very small