Long and Short Sound Pattern: OA and OW
*Telling the difference between homophones helps us to know the correct spelling.
o-e and oa
(example: rode vs road)
ow
/ow/ is often found at the end of words, and makes a long /o/ sound (example: snow)
.......but there are some exceptions when in a word that ends in an L (i.e. owl, fowl) as well as words that have -er endings (i.e. flower, power). We will be looking at ou words in the coming weeks (sour, flour).
Activities to try:
Words sorted according to rules & games: https://www.spellzone.com/unit07/page18.cfm
Worksheet based: https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/word-family-ow.html
Green Group:
homophone*fowl (poultry/bird); the homophone is: foul (illegal move/bad smell/make dirty)
homophone*road (noun) meaning a way to travel; rode (conjugated verb 'ride') past tense meaning travel on or in vehicle or animal.
homonym *bow (front of the boat or a curved weapon used with an arrow, by Inuit to hunt);
homophones and homonym examples: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bow)
Yellow:
-ing, -y
-consonant blends: fl, fr, gr, fl, kn, sn
Purple:
-double consonants (pp, rr, ll)
*Homephones: same sound, different spelling & meanings
**Homonyms: same sound, same spelling, different meanings
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