Starter quiz
- Pick the spelling that matches the sentence. He sent a letter to his mother, __________ Ali.
- misus
- Mrs ✓
- Msr
- msrs
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- Select the proper noun from the list.
- launch pad
- author
- August ✓
- sauce
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- Choose the 'or' spellings that match the words.
- sort⇔or ✓
- paw⇔aw ✓
- pause⇔au ✓
- door⇔oor ✓
- Which of these are the common spellings of the or sound?
- au ✓
- oor ✓
- aw ✓
- oe
- ai
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- Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence: I like to have tomato sorce on my pasta.
- sors
- sauce ✓
- saus
- soorce
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- Where does the 'oor' spelling generally go in a word?
- at the end ✓
- at the beginning
- in the middle
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Exit quiz
- Pick the spelling that matches the sentence: The teacher was very __________ that day.
- busee
- bizy
- busy ✓
- bizee
- bisy
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- Pick the spelling that matches the sentence: Are you __________ you don't need a coat?
- shoor
- shure
- sure ✓
- sher
- ser
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- Choose the 'or' spellings that match the words.
- important⇔or ✓
- author⇔au ✓
- outdoors⇔oor ✓
- sawdust⇔aw ✓
- Choose the correct spelling for the world in bold in the following sentence: The season after summer is ortum.
- autum
- ortum
- autumn ✓
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- Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence: I wake up at seven in the moornig each day.
- murning
- mawning
- morning ✓
- mornig
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- Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence: The orther of the book was Roald Dahl.
- 'author' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- ‘aw’ is a representation of the 'or' phoneme that often comes at the end of a word and sometimes in the middle.
- ‘oor’ is a representation of the 'or' phoneme that sometimes comes at the end of a word.
- The proper noun 'August' is spelt using a capital letter.
- How to spell the common exception words: busy, sure and sugar.
Common misconception
Autumn can also be assumed to have a capital letter, as the name of a season.
Explain that convention is generally not to capitalise the names of the seasons.
Keywords
Digraph - two letters that represent one sound
Trigraph - three letters that represent one sound
Proper noun - a naming word that does need capitalisation
Word family - a group of words common in feature, pattern or meaning
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