🎯 WALT: We Are Learning To identify spelling patterns and rules

Success Criteria: I can recognise common spelling patterns and explain the rules they follow.

Look at each group of words and identify the spelling pattern or rule.

Card 1: night, light, sight, bright, flight
Pattern: _________________________________

Card 2: hoping, coming, writing, making, taking
Pattern: _________________________________

Card 3: cities, babies, families, stories, berries
Pattern: _________________________________

Card 4: receive, believe, achieve, perceive, conceive
Pattern: _________________________________

Card 5: jumped, walked, talked, looked, helped
Pattern: _________________________________

Card 6: phone, graph, elephant, photograph, alphabet
Pattern: _________________________________

Card 7: running, swimming, stopping, getting, sitting
Pattern: _________________________________

Card 8: thought, caught, taught, naughty, daughter
Pattern: _________________________________

For each card, write the spelling rule and add one more word that follows the same pattern.

Card 9: knife, knee, know, knock
Rule: _________________________________
Extra word: _______________

Card 10: watches, boxes, glasses, dresses
Rule: _________________________________
Extra word: _______________

Card 11: beautiful, colourful, wonderful, powerful
Rule: _________________________________
Extra word: _______________

Card 12: there, their, they, them
Rule: _________________________________
Extra word: _______________

Card 13: centre, theatre, litre, metre
Rule: _________________________________
Extra word: _______________

Card 14: organise, realise, recognise, apologise
Rule: _________________________________
Extra word: _______________

Card 15: through, rough, enough, cough
Rule: _________________________________
Extra word: _______________

Support Strategy: Use coloured pens to highlight the pattern in each word group.

Extension Activity: Create your own spelling pattern card using 4-5 words. Challenge a classmate to identify your pattern!

My Pattern Card:

Spelling Pattern Identification Cards