Spelling i before e words and some exceptions.

With all the other things that we have to do in the classroom, we can't forget spelling!  This is a spelling assignment for the pesky  i before e rule. 

Rachael Alice 

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Spelling  i before e words and some exceptions.

believe - You must believe that [i] usually comes before [e] except after [c] or when it is pronounced like "a" as "neighbor" and "weigh" or "e" as in "their" and "heir."

foreign below. (The "i-before-e" rule has more exceptions than words it applies to.)

height – this word is an exception to the rule.

hierarchy - The i-before-e rule works here.

leisure - Yet another violator of the i-before-e rule. You can be sure of the spelling of the last syllable but not of the pronunciation.

neighbor - The word "neighbor" breaks the i-before-e rule and invokes the silent "gh". If you use British spelling, "neighbour."

receive/receipt - I hope you have received the message by now: [i] before [e] except after . . . .

their/they're/there - They're all pronounced the same but spelled differently. Possessive is "their" and the contraction of "they are" is "they're." Everywhere else, it is "there."

weird - It is weird having to repeat this rule so many times: [i] before [e] except after...? (It isn't [w]!)

weigh – here is an exception to the rule

Assignment:

Write each word in a sentence:

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