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Spelling practice for ages 8–9

At ages 8–9 spelling is about patterns and sounds: common letter groups, doubling rules and plurals. Learning patterns now beats memorising lists later.

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What your child practises at ages 8–9

  • Common patterns like -tion and -igh
  • Doubling letters: hop → hopping
  • Plurals with -s and -es
  • Magic e: hop → hope
  • Capital letters for names and days
  • High-frequency tricky words (because, said)

What the questions look like

Three examples at the ages 8–9 level. In BrainBite, every question comes with an instant explanation.

Hopping or hoping: which one means jumping?

Hopping. Double the consonant after a short vowel: hop → hopping. One p makes it hoping.

What's the plural of 'box'?

Boxes. After x, s, ch and sh the plural takes -es: boxes, buses, wishes.

Make + ing = ?

Making. Drop the silent e before adding -ing: make → making, ride → riding.

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