The 'oo' spellings, including 'oo', 'ew' and 'u-e' | English

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Which two of these are proper nouns?
- movie
- Mars ✓
- Wales ✓
- pencil
Match each word to the number of phonemes it contains.
- food
  
  ⇔
  
  3 ✓
- chew
  
  ⇔
  
  2 ✓
- flute
  
  ⇔
  
  4 ✓
Choose two more spellings that can also represent the sound 'oo', like in shoot.
- ew ✓
- u-e ✓
- ea
- igh
Choose the word that rhymes with mood.
- chew
- rule
- food ✓
Choose the word that rhymes with 'shoot'.
- blew
- flute ✓
- rude
Which two of these words have one syllable?
- drew ✓
- matter
- moon ✓
- chewing

Pick the spelling that matches the sentence: What are you doing right __________ ?
- know
- now ✓
- nou
Match the 'oo' spellings to the words.
- oo
  
  ⇔
  
  shoot ✓
- ew
  
  ⇔
  
  chew ✓
- u-e
  
  ⇔
  
  chute ✓
Match each word to the correct sound ('oo' or 'yoo').
- few
  
  ⇔
  
  yoo ✓
- drew
  
  ⇔
  
  oo ✓
- flute
  
  ⇔
  
  oo ✓
- huge
  
  ⇔
  
  yoo ✓
Match the grapheme to where they commonly appear in a word.
- oo
  
  ⇔
  
  in the middle ✓
- ew
  
  ⇔
  
  at the end ✓
- u-e
  
  ⇔
  
  last but one ✓
Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence: His birthday is in jewn.
- 'June' ✓
Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence: She droo a beautiful picture.
- 'drew' ✓

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‘ew’ is a representation of the 'oo' phoneme that often comes at the end of a word.
The ‘oo’ phoneme can be pronounced in two different ways: 'oo' and 'yoo'.
How to spell the high frequency word: now.
'New' and 'knew' are homophones.

Confusion of 'now'/'know' and 'new'/'knew'. 'Ow' can be pronounced in different ways.

Teach examples of silent letters explicitly and get children to keep an eye out for them in their wider reading.

Split diagraph - has a letter that comes between the two letters in a digraph like in "make" where the "k" separates the digraph "ae"
Digraph - two letters that represent one sound
Homophones - words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings
Silent letter - a letter in a word that is not pronounced when the word is spoken