The "Rabbit Rule" !

Spelling help for week 2!

We will be going over our spelling list and will have several activities planned to help students with this week’s spelling pattern.  This double consonant pattern can be a tricky one!  Here are a few resources to help you support your student’s mastery of this tricky pattern.

This week the spelling generalization is the “Rabbit Rule”!

I always tell students that this is more of a “generalization” than a rule.  There will always be those pesky “rule breakers” or expectations. This is a generalization that can be applied to most words but not all words. The “Rabbit Rule” is a spelling rule that explains why we double the consonant in words like “rabbit” or “kitten”.  This helps generalization can be seen in the double consonant in many common words, such as supper, muffin, letter, tennis, rubber, carrot, ladder, better, and traffic.

The Rabbit Generalization says, that the middle consonant is usually doubled in words that meet these three standards:

• ·         Does the word have two syllables?
• ·         Is the first vowel saying its short vowel sound?
• ·         Is there one consonant sound between the two vowels?

Quizlet practice game: https://quizlet.com/_3oha1d

Spelling City Link: https://www.spellingcity.com/RMLittre/

Instruction Video from “Multisensory Monday”: http://safeYouTube.net/w/UzKb