New 'oo' spellings, including 'ue', 'ui' and 'ou' | English

Starter quiz

Choose the words which contain the oo sound.
- soon ✓
- burn
- rude ✓
- chew ✓
- over
Choose the words which contain the oo sound.
- glue ✓
- group ✓
- more
- juice ✓
- dear
Select the correct spelling to match the sentence. I __________ my hat on because it was cold.
- put ✓
- poot
- putt
- pout
Select the correct spelling to match the sentence. There's no need to be __________ .
- rood
- rude ✓
- rewd
- rud
Select the correct spelling to match the sentence. The car's exhaust released __________.
- fyooms
- fums
- fumes ✓
- fooms
Select the correct spelling to match the sentence. I can't decide which ice cream flavour to __________ .
- chooz
- chuse
- choose ✓
- chouse

Choose the correct spelling to complete the sentence. How __________ points did you score?
- meny
- mani
- many ✓
Choose the correct spelling to complete the sentence. I looked __________ my friend's cat.
- arfter
- after ✓
- aftir
- aftur
Select the words which contain a spelling for the 'oo' sound.
- issue ✓
- bruise ✓
- go
- wound ✓
- too ✓
Match the grapheme that makes the 'oo' sound to where they commonly appear in a word.
- ue
  
  ⇔
  
  at the end of a word ✓
- ui
  
  ⇔
  
  in the middle of a word often followed by 't' , 'se' or 'ce' ✓
- ou
  
  ⇔
  
  in the middle of a word ✓
Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: I drank a tasty glass of joose .
- 'juice' ✓
Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: We showed great team work when we completed the groop task.
- 'group' ✓

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‘ue’ is a representation of the 'oo' phoneme that often comes at the end of a word.
ue', 'ui' and 'ou' are alternative spellings of the 'oo' phoneme.
How to spell the common exception words: many and after.

The 'ou' and 'ui' spelling can be pronounced in different ways e.g. suit vs build or soup vs shout.

Be explicit with children about these different pronunciations and give them the opportunity to read words out loud to check.

Pronunciation - the way a word or language is spoken, including the sounds, stress and intonation patterns
Rare - spellings that appear less often than common ones
Digraph - two letters that represent one sound