Starter quiz
- Which of these are a proper noun?
- Monday ✓
- Scotland ✓
- ball
- sky
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- Match each word to the number of phonemes it contains.
- better⇔4 ✓
- fur⇔2 ✓
- birth⇔3 ✓
- Choose two more spellings that can also represent the sound 'er', like in never.
- ea
- ir ✓
- ur ✓
- eer
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- Choose the word that rhymes with bird.
- third ✓
- bid
- hid
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- Choose the word that rhymes with 'dirt'.
- dent
- hurt ✓
- hot
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- Which of these words have two syllables?
- better ✓
- shirt
- letter ✓
- turn
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Exit quiz
- Pick the spelling that matches the sentence. Please __________ here.
- come ✓
- cum
- coom
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- Choose the 'er' spellings that match to the words.
- third⇔ir ✓
- hamster⇔er ✓
- church⇔ur ✓
- Match the grapheme to where they commonly appear in a word.
- er⇔the end ✓
- ir⇔the middle ✓
- Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence. She came thurd in the race.
- 'third' ✓
- Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence. The cat ran after the berd.
- 'bird' ✓
- Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence. The children went to visit the cherch.
- 'church' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- er', 'ir' and 'ur' are common representations of the 'er' phoneme.
- How to spell the common exception words: some and come.
- A mnemonic can help us to remember tricky spellings.
Common misconception
Pupils can think spelling generalisations are always true e.g. 'er' found at the end.
Careful with wording. Say 'ir' and 'ur' are 'often' not 'always' found in the middle. Show a familiar exception to the rule if necessary.
Keywords
Digraph - two letters that represent one sound
Mnemonic - a word, short poem, or sentence that can help you remember things such as spelling rules
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