Spelfabet

Learning the building blocks of words - sounds, their spellings, and word parts

Revising plural ‘s’ as in cats/dogs and ‘es’ as in buses, past tense ‘ed’ as in hummed, kicked and planted, and present progressive ‘ing’ as in jumping.
Introducing irregular plurals, past tense and past participles e.g child-children, sit-sat, creep-crept, grow-grew-grown.
Revising comparative ‘er’, superlative ‘est’ as in fastest, adjectival ‘y’ as in lucky, adverbial ‘ly’ as in ‘luckily’, and suffixes ‘ness’ as in kindness and ‘less’ as in harmless.
Introducing past participle ‘en’ as in given, and suffixes ‘ish’ as in childish, ‘able’ as in adaptable, ‘ible’ as in ‘terrible’, and ‘ful’ as in careful.
Chameleon prefix ‘in’ meaning ‘not’ as in indefinite, impossible, irrelevant and illegal.
Prefixes ‘dis’ as in disable, ‘mis’ as in mistake and ‘un’ as in unkind.
Prefixes ‘re’ as in ‘revisit’, ‘pre’ as in ‘prepack’ and ‘post’ as in ‘postpone’.
Prefix ‘anti’ as in antidote, contrasted with ‘ante’ as in antenatal
Do I really want to follow this sequence? I don’t really like it.