Starter quiz
- Identify the spellings that contain the 'ou' sound.
- cloud ✓
- show
- plough ✓
- bowl
- cow ✓
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- Match the 'ear' spellings to the correct words.
- beard⇔ear ✓
- pier⇔ier ✓
- beer⇔eer ✓
- here⇔ere ✓
- Select the words that contain the /iss/ sound.
- fish
- crystal ✓
- malice ✓
- mission
- hiss ✓
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'The paper had a tair in it because it was ripped.'
- tare
- tere
- tear ✓
- teer
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'Somewhere in the darkness, I heard the soft hoot of a barn aul.'
- oul
- houl
- owel
- owl ✓
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'The captain allowed me to stear the ship.'
- steir
- steer ✓
- stere
- steere
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Exit quiz
- Identify the words containing the 'ear' letter string.
- pierce
- clear ✓
- heard ✓
- real
- clean
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- Match the words to the sound that the ‘ou’ letter string is making.
- soul⇔o ✓
- soup⇔oo like in 'food' ✓
- couple⇔u ✓
- out⇔ow ✓
- Match the words to the sound that the ‘ice’ letter string is making.
- chalice⇔iss ✓
- twice⇔ice ✓
- police⇔ees ✓
- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'The weather outside is dreerey.'
- drerey
- driery
- dreery
- dreary ✓
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'This Sunday, I will go to a survis in my local church.'
- serviss
- service ✓
- survice
- servees
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'This Sunday, I will hike up the mountin.'
- mownten
- mountan
- moughntain
- mountain ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The 'ou' spelling can make the sounds 'or', 'u', 'ow' and 'oo'.
- The 'ear' spelling can make the sounds 'ear', 'air', 'ar' and 'er'.
- The 'ice' spelling can make the sounds 'ice' and 'iss'.
- When you hear one of these sounds, the word might contain the 'ou', 'ear' or 'ice' spelling.
- How to spell the curriculum words: forty, rhythm and criticise.
Common misconception
Spellings such as 'practice', 'advice' and 'device' can be more difficult for children.
Explore words ending in -ice and words ending in -ise. Listen to the difference in pronunciation of these words and discuss the difference in word class too e.g. practice, advice, device = nouns, practise, advise, devise = verbs.
Keywords
Letter string - a group of letters that are written together in a word
Phoneme - the smallest unit of sound that can change a word's meaning
Digraph - two letters that represent one sound
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