New 'oa' spellings, including 'o' and 'oe'
I can know two new spellings for the 'oa' phoneme: 'o' and 'oe'.
New 'oa' spellings, including 'o' and 'oe'
I can know two new spellings for the 'oa' phoneme: 'o' and 'oe'.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- 'o' and 'oe' are rarer representations of the 'oa' phoneme.
- ‘oe’ is a representation of the 'oa' phoneme most commonly found at the end of a word.
- How to spell the common exception words: your and here.
- 'Your' and 'you're' are homophones.
- 'Here' and 'hear' are homophones.
Common misconception
Pupils will look for any word with ‘o’ in it and associate it with the long vowel 'oa'.
Teach that ‘o’ can be pronounced in different ways. Emphasise that in most words, the 'o' is making an 'o' phoneme.
Keywords
Digraph - two letters that represent one sound
Split digraph - has a letter that comes between the two letters in a digraph like in "make" where the "k" separates the digraph "ae"
Homophone - words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings
Contraction - two words pushed together with an apostrophe
Licence
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
in the middle of a word
at the end of a word
'the last but one'
two letters that represent one sound
has a letter that splits the two vowels in a digraph
words that sound the same but have different meanings
Exit quiz
6 Questions
you're
hear
no
anywhere in a word
at the end of a word