I wish I could have back all the time I’ve spent looking up whether or not I doubled the consonant in a word when I added a suffix! I know that sounds a bit ridiculous but think about all of the words you’ve spelled in your life and how many times you’ve needed to know this concept. For some reason I always thought that this was one of those things that I just needed to memorize like sight words, but I could never remember exactly, so out came the dictionary!
Apparently, I was never bothered enough to do some research on this, but now that I know there is a RULE, I’ve had time to reflect on what a nice thing this would have been for me to know!
My mission today is to help you prevent your students from too much dictionary time or a lifetime of poor spelling by just teaching them this simple spelling rule!
Take a look!
