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Year 2
Applying the new 'oa' spellings, including 'o' and 'oe'
I can apply two new spellings for the 'oa' phoneme: 'o' and 'oe'.
New
New
Year 2
Applying the new 'oa' spellings, including 'o' and 'oe'
I can apply two new spellings for the 'oa' phoneme: 'o' and 'oe'.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- o' and 'oe' are representations of the 'oa' phoneme.
- ‘oe’ is a representation of the 'oa' phoneme most commonly found at the end of a word.
- The 'o' representation of the 'oa' phoneme is in the high frequency words only, both and over.
- How to spell the common exception words: half and again.
Keywords
Noun - nouns are words that name a person, place, thing, or idea, such as "cat," "school," or "love"
High frequency words - the words or spellings that appear most frequently in written texts
Rare - words or spellings that do not appear very often
Common misconception
'oe' and 'o' can be commonly confused because they often appear at the end of words.
Draw attention to how rare the 'oe' spelling is and that the 'o' spelling at the end has limited use in high frequency words.
Look at the spelling corrections to see the words you can test them on. The sentence the children need to hold and write is under the blue box.
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6 Questions
Q1.
How many syllables in the word moment?
1
3
4
Q2.
Choose two words that are nouns.
go
below
no
Q3.
Match the word to the spelling it uses for the 'oa' sound.
'oe'
'o'
'oe'
'o'
Q4.
Choose the three common spellings of the oa sound.
o
oe
Q5.
Pick the spelling that matches the sentence. I will wait for you __________.
hear
her
heer
Q6.
Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence: It is important not to lose foacus in your lesssons.
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6 Questions
Q1.
Select the correct spelling to match the sentence. I can't wait to visit the museum __________
agen
agane
agan
Q2.
Select the correct spelling to match the sentence. I only ate ___________ the pizza
have
haf
halph
Q3.
Choose the 'oa' spellings that match the words.
oe
ow
oa
o-e
o
Q4.
Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence: The two friends became terrible fos.
Q5.
Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence: They were a highly skilled banjoe player.
Q6.
Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence. When the light went green we knew the car could gow.
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