Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 17 - Adding Suffixes That Change Base Words' Finally to I
If it ends in a y, change the y to i when adding a suffix like -ness, -ly, or fy. The final lesson in the Word Recognition and Fluency series of 17 explains when to change the final letter in a base word to i before adding a suffix....
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Spelling List 32: "Y" to "I" Change Words, and Academic Vocabulary
In this spelling list learning exercise, students practice spelling words that are y to i words and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words total.
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Plurals: Nouns and Verbs Ending in Y
If a word ends in -y, to make it plural you change it to -es, right? Not always! Use a worksheet that addresses both nouns and verbs that end in -y and prompts learners to follow the grammar rule when changing each word.
Poetry Class
Tackling Climate Change
Get your kids thinking about climate change with a series of activities that include creating a ditty box poem for the planet, a poem that identifies concepts or objects they would want to preserve.
American English
Welcome to the Color Vowel Chart
Focus English language learners' attention on word stress and phrase stress with a pronunciation chart that breaks the sounds into moving and non-moving vowel sounds. The chart tool uses colors and key words to indicate where to put the...
Curated OER
Plurals Assessment
For this plurals worksheet, young scholars find the plurals for twenty words on two word searches. Each word search has ten words. A variety of spelling patterns is included such as adding es, adding s, changing f to v, and changing y to i.
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Y-Intercept and Slope Intercept Form
Alegebra amateurs identify the slope and the y-intercept given a linear equation in slope-intercept form by correctly completing some in class problems. They write the linear equation in slope-intercept form that corresponds to the given...
K12 Reader
Christmas Modifiers: Change the Adjective to an Adverb
Incorporate a grammar lesson into your winter holidays celebration by asking class members to change the adjectives in sentences into adverbs. You'll be amazed how quickly learners catch on.
K12 Reader
Adjectives to Adverbs
Create new adverbs with a list of adjectives. After reviewing how to add -ly to words that end in consonants, as well as words that end in vowels, kids work through 16 adjectives.
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I Can Find Slope
Your young mathematicians will appreciate this wonderfully organized summary and explanation of linear slope. Approaching slope as it looks in a table of values, on a graph, in an equation, and between two points, this note sheet is...
Illustrative Mathematics
Find the Change
This exercise is an opportunity for algebra learners to understand the connection between the slope of a line and points found on the line. Use similar triangles to explain why slope m is the same between any two points. Discuss with the...
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Present Tense (2)
Learners correct the errors in four sentences related to subject-verb agreement and spelling with the change y to i and add -es rule. A chart with relevant examples makes up the top half of the sheet.
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Plurals: Changing the y to ies
In this plurals worksheet, students make 8 words that end in y mean more than one. (berry-berries). Students then use four plurals in a sentence.
Global Oneness Project
Communities on the Threshold of Change
Viewers of the short documentary Santa Cruz Del Islote consider how changes in climate and overfishing impact the life style of the 1,200 residents of a small island off the coast of Cartagena, Columbia.
Museum of Tolerance
Making Lemonade: Responding to Oppression in Empowering Ways
An activity focused on tolerance encourages class members to consider how they might respond when they or someone else is the target of oppression and discrimination. After researching how some key figures responded to the anti-Semitism...
K12 Reader
Spelling Rule Exceptions for Plural Nouns: Words That End in Y
Changing the -y to an -ies in a plural noun isn't as straightforward as it sounds! Check out a worksheet that features 20 singular nouns that need to be changed to plural nouns—and instructions about the grammar rule needed to do so.
Global Oneness Project
Living with Less Water
Did you know that California produces two thirds of the fruits and nuts consumed in the United States? That it produces almost one third of the vegetables? Did you know that scientists warn that California is facing the onset of a...
K12 Reader
Superlative Adjectives: Words That End in Y
What's the silliest game you've ever played? Which was the rainiest day this month? Practice superlative forms with a worksheet that focuses on adjectives that end in the letter y.
Global Oneness Project
Then and Now
The devastating changes happening to the Native American inhabitants of an island off the coast of Louisiana are the topic of an informational lesson. After scholars break into groups to explore particular topics, they come back together...
K12 Reader
Change Adjectives into Adverbs
What do you need to turn an adjective into an adverb? Sometimes you need an -ly, but there are other endings. Ask your learners to change the endings of 29 adjectives in order to transform them into adverbs and complete the provided...
Curated OER
Algebra I: Linear Functions
Using rates from a rental car company, young mathematicians graph data, explore linear relationships, and discuss the role of slope and the y-intercept. This lesson allows for the discussion of independent and dependent variables, as...
Global Oneness Project
Documenting Architectural Heritage
Imagine going from being one of the richest, most important cities in the world to one of the poorest. Imagine the history captured in the architecture of such a city. Imagine these same now abandoned buildings being destroyed. How would...
Global Oneness Project
Freedom to Change
Here's something unusual and thoughtful: have your scholars do some pensive reflection themselves before tackling how such meditative techniques are used in prison rehabilitation programs. They watch the "Path of Freedom" video found...
Curated OER
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, Name Changes
Set up a listening center, record the provided script, and see how well your class can manipulate phonemes based on the instructions you've provided. This center-based activity builds the phonological awareness and phoneme manipulation...