Lesson 15
Adding -s and -es
Spelling Focus: Add -s to words ending in a vowel and y and to most words: monkeys, flowers. Change y to i and add -es to words ending in a consonant and y: supplies. Add -es to words ending in sh, ch, s, ss, x: beaches.
- monkeys
- flowers
- friends *
- supplies
- enemies
- eyelashes
- beaches
- circuses
- classes
- taxes
- tigers
- holidays
- delays
- hobbies
- memories
- mysteries
- ashes
- bunches
- glasses
- suffixes
*indicates words that are most commonly misspelled by fourth graders in their writing.