Marquita Noel-Price

Eng.487-01
Professor: Fantuzzi
9/30/15

Amelias Road
Authors: Altman/Sanchez
Amelia called it the accidental road because it was narrow and rocky, more like a
footpath that happened by accident than a road somebody built on purpose. She followed it over
a grassy meadow, through a clump of bushes, and down a gentle hill. There, where the accidental
road ended, stood a most wondrous tree. It was old beyond knowing, and quite the sturdiest,
most permanent thing Amelia had ever seen. When she closed her eyes, she could even picture it
ibn front of her tidy white house. Amelia danced for joy, her black hair flying as she twirled
around and around the silent meadow.

Noel-Price
Spelling Patterns and Rules
1. EI or IE Rule: Usually i before e except after c or as sounding like a as in
neighbor or way.
Example: sturdiest
2. Compound Words: Use the full spelling of both words without a hyphen.
Example: footpath, somebody
3. Plurals: Adding s or es, add s to most nouns and verbs. Example: eyes
Add es if words end in ch, sh,x, s, or z Example: bushes
4. Diagraphs: two letters, one sound. Example: bushes, black, stood, through, footpath, the,
there, where, when
5. The letter Q is always followed by U. Example: quite
6. Short Vowel: To spell a short vowel, only one letter is needed. Example: it
7. Long /e/: When y stands alone at the end of a word that has two or more syllables it
makes the long /e/ sound. Examples: rocky, somebody, grassy, tidy.
8. Long /i/: When y is at the end of a one syllable word, it has a long /i. / sound.
Example: by, fly,
9. Diphthongs: oi. oy, ou, ow Spell oy at the end of a word. Example: joy
10. Soft c/ Hard c: Example: accident
11. Double Vowel Syllables: ea The ea vowel team can be either long or short. Example:
meadow
12. R-Controlled Vowels: -ir, -er, -ur
The ir pattern says ur/ as in bird, the er pattern says /ur/ as in her, and the ur pattern
says /ur/ as in fur. Examples: purpose, permanent, ever, her, and hair, twirled.
13. Hard and soft c and g: 1.Use the letter c to spell /k/ before the letters a, o and u. (hard
c) 2. Use the letter c to spell /s/ before the letters e, i and y. (soft c) 3.Use letter g to spell

the /g/ sound right before the letters a, o or u. (hard g) 4. Use the letter g to spell the /j/
sound before the letters e, i, or y. (soft g). Example: gentle, danced, closed, clump, called
14. Floss Rule: If a word only has one vowel and ends with f,l,s, or z, then double the last
letter. Example: hill
15. Prepositions: A preposition is followed by a "noun". It is never followed by a verb.
Examples: by, on, over, through, in, and around.
16. When adding -ing or -ed suffixes follow Rule: 1 Syllable - 1 Vowel - 1 Consonant pattern
(VC). Vowels are: a, e, i, o, u (and sometimes "y"). Consonants are all the other letters
in the alphabet. All CVC letter patterns are a double header--double the ending consonant
and then add -ing or -ed. VVC or VCC letter patterns of the words are not doubled.
Examples: knowing, flying