Starter quiz
- Identify the words containing the 'm' sound.
- map ✓
- swimming ✓
- zoo
- climb ✓
- ran
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- Identify the words containing the 'r' sound.
- brown ✓
- write ✓
- iron
- carry ✓
- washing
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- Identify the words containing the 'n' sound.
- gnome ✓
- sing
- spinning ✓
- hang
- knot ✓
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- Identify the words containing the 's' sound.
- wishing
- city ✓
- star ✓
- island
- whistle ✓
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- Match the words to their spellings of the 'n' sound.
- winner⇔nn ✓
- nibble⇔n ✓
- knitting⇔kn ✓
- gnawed⇔gn ✓
- Match the words to their spellings of the 'm' sound.
- swimming⇔mm ✓
- mascot⇔m ✓
- bomb⇔mb ✓
Exit quiz
- Match the words to their spellings of the 'n' sound.
- funny⇔nn ✓
- nice⇔n ✓
- know⇔kn ✓
- gnash⇔gn ✓
- Identify the words containing a silent letter 'b'.
- embarrass
- plumber ✓
- doubt ✓
- bigger
- timber
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'Her rinckled hands revealed her age.'
- rinkled
- rinkld
- wrinkld
- wrinkled ✓
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'I blew a wissle and my dog came bounding through the long grass.'
- wistle
- whissle
- whistle ✓
- wisstle
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- Choose the correct spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: 'My fingers were numm from the cold weather.'
- num
- numb ✓
- numt
- nummb
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- Choose the correct spelling of the words in bold in the following sentence: 'The branches of the tree were nobly and narlled.'
- 'nobbly' and 'narled'
- 'knobly' and 'gnaled'
- 'knobbely' and 'gnawled'
- 'knobbly' and 'gnarled' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- A silent 'b' generally comes towards the end of a word and next to a 't' or after the letter 'm'.
- A silent 'w' might come at the beginning of a word before the letter 'r'.
- A silent 'k' always comes at the beginning of a word and before the letter 'n'.
- A silent 'g' can come at the beginning of a word or at the end of a word, but it generally comes before the letter 'n'.
- How to spell words with the silent letter 't' and the curriculum words: government, parliament, rhyme.
Common misconception
Pupils may confuse 'silent letters' and 'digraphs'.
'kn' is a digraph making the /n/ sound but, in general, silent letters are individual letters in a word that are not pronounced, whereas digraphs are pairs of letters that represent a single sound.
Keywords
Silent letter - a letter in a word that is not pronounced when the word is spoken
Phoneme - the smallest unit of sound that can change its meaning
Grapheme - the letter or group of letters that represent a sound
Digraph - two letters that represent one sound
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