New 'er' spellings, including 'or' and 'ear' | English

Starter quiz

Choose the words which contain the er sound.
- burn ✓
- purse ✓
- hear
- over ✓
- fire
Choose the words which contain the er sound.
- word ✓
- earth ✓
- twirl ✓
- fear
- for
Select the correct spelling to match the sentence. I __________ in England.
- lif
- liv
- live ✓
Select the correct spelling to match the sentence. I have a pet __________ .
- hamstu
- hamster ✓
- haster
- hamstir
Select the correct spelling to match the sentence. I put the __________ in the post box.
- lettuh
- leter
- letter ✓
Select the correct spelling to match the sentence. My hamster has brown __________ .
- fur ✓
- fir
- fer

Choose the correct spelling to complete the sentence. They __________ happy to see us .
- where
- were ✓
- wer
Select the words which contain a spelling for the 'er' sound.
- worm ✓
- earn ✓
- work ✓
- twirl ✓
- each
Match the grapheme that makes the 'er' sound to where they commonly appear in a word.
- ir
  
  ⇔
  
  often in the middle of a word ✓
- er
  
  ⇔
  
  often at the end of a word ✓
- ear
  
  ⇔
  
  often at the beginning or middle of a word ✓
- or
  
  ⇔
  
  often in the middle of a word after a 'w' ✓
Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence. I saw a wurm in the grass.
- 'worm' ✓
Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence. Please help me to serch for my pen.
- 'search' ✓
Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence. Now we must get to wirk.
- 'work' ✓

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'ear' is a representation of the 'er' phoneme that can ben found at the beginning or middle of a word.
The 'or' representation of the 'er' phoneme is found after a 'w', such as 'word' and 'worm'.
How to spell the common exception words: said and were.

The digraph 'or' and trigraph 'ear' also make different long vowel sounds.

Remind children that the same grapheme (digraph and trigraph) can represent different sounds. Say the words out loud to check.