Description
🎶 Why just say it when you can SING it and learn a rule?
This song helps students remember when to change Y to I before adding a suffix, covering the 3 main variations and those tricky “rogue” rule-breaker words. With lyrics, visuals, movement, and practice, your students will spell with confidence—and have fun doing it!
✨ What’s Inside the 20-Page Packet:
- 🎵 Song lyrics anchor charts (colorful + hand motion cues)
- 📝 2 Lyrics pages for individual practice and review
- 📚 Word lists for practice and differentiation
- 🗂️ Sort chart for multisensory spelling application
- 🎨 Picture fill-in worksheet for visual reinforcement
- ✍️ Y root word practice (adding suffixes)
- 🎲 2 Spelling games with instructions + bonus variations
- 🔍 “Rogue Words” activity page for exception awareness
- ✅ Answer keys + teacher tips for flexible use
👩🏫 Instructional goodness you might appreciate :
- ✅ Structured literacy materials that are Orton-Gillingham inspired, SoR & UFLI aligned
- ✅ Multisensory: singing, writing, reading, speaking, movement
- ✅ Flexible for Grades 1–5, intervention, homeschool, resource rooms, and private tutoring
- ✅ Created by an educational therapist with real student-tested success
- ✅ Helps learners with dyslexia, ADHD, executive functioning challenges, and more
🎵 This rule is one of the “Three Great Spelling Rules” in OG instruction. Now your students can remember it with rhythm and meaning. The chorus teaches the core rule, while each “WAIT!” verse explains key exceptions—encouraging metacognition and choice-making in spelling.
💬 From Cee MK:
I created this resource to help my students who were struggling with the Y to I rule—and they picked it up so quickly through the song and movement, I knew I had to share it. These materials are designed to build pattern recognition, support executive function, and create positive, successful learning experiences for ALL students.
📺 Listen and try my tune…
Visit @wordplayletterloveliteracy on YouTube and check out the two shorts of the Y to I song. You can also make up your own tune. Just have fun and make it multisensory to keep it memorable.
🎵 More songs for the big spelling rules available – collect them all to cue easy recall of spelling rules in usage.
Happy teaching—and happy singing! 🎶
