Starter quiz
- Pick the spelling that matches the sentence: He likes to have __________ with his tea.
- shooga
- shuga
- shuger
- sugar ✓
- suger
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- Choose the 'or' spellings that match the words.
- door⇔oor ✓
- morning⇔or ✓
- jigsaw⇔aw ✓
- fault⇔au ✓
- Which sentence is in the past tense?
- I will walk to the park tomorrow.
- I walked to school yesterday. ✓
- I like walking in the sunshine.
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- How many phonemes are there in each word?
- walking⇔5 ✓
- more⇔2 ✓
- bought⇔3 ✓
- Choose the correct spelling for the world in bold in the following sentence: She will oordir the book online.
- auder
- order ✓
- ordir
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- Choose the correct spelling for the word in bold in the following sentence: I like to jror in my sketchbook.
- dror
- draw ✓
- jraw
- droor
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Exit quiz
- Pick the spelling that matches the sentence: She felt thirsty so she drank some __________ .
- wautuh
- worter
- water ✓
- watter
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- Pick the spelling that matches the sentence: After school, I like to go for a __________ .
- walk ✓
- work
- wawk
- walck
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- Choose the 'or' spelling that matches the words.
- ough⇔bought ✓
- a⇔small ✓
- ore⇔snore ✓
- Choose the correct spelling for the word in bold in the following sentence: The brothers foort over who could go first on the slide.
- fort
- fought ✓
- fawt
- fuougt
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- Choose the correct spelling for the word in bold in the following sentence: Please don't ignaw me!
- icnaw
- ignore ✓
- ignoor
- ignor
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- Write the correct spelling for the word in bold in the following sentence: She loves reading and she orlso loves painting.
- 'also' ✓
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Key learning points
- ‘ore’ is a representation of the 'or' phoneme that usually comes at the end of a word, such as more.
- 'ough' and 'a' are alternative spellings of the 'or' phoneme.
- The 'or' phoneme is usually spelt as 'a' before 'l' or 'll'.
- Most words using the 'ough' spelling are past tense verbs.
- How to spell the common exception words: water, always, walk and talk.
Common misconception
Children can mix up the meaning of 'bought' and 'brought'.
Say the words in sentences several times to establish the meaning, and link to the present tense 'buy' and bring'.
Keywords
Digraph - two letters that represent one sound
Trigraph - three letters that represent one sound
Verb - a doing or being word
Past tense - show the action happened before now
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