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Today we will be doing some spelling activities:

Spelling – The ‘i’ before ‘e’ rule

Many words contain the letters ‘i’ and ‘e’ together and you can use this rule to decide whether ‘i’ comes before ‘e’ or after it.

‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’.

EXAMPLES of words that follow this rule:         believe        perceive,       receive     piece

Some words break the ‘i’ before ‘e’ rule and there are some exceptions you need to learn…

EXAMPLES of some of these exceptions:          weird         seize         scientific