Spelling 16 — o_e ion: Revise some basic sounds and the other spellings covered so far, Revise tricky words ‘ga’, ‘no’, ‘so’, ‘my’, ‘one’, ‘by’, ‘only’, ‘old’, ‘like’ and ‘have’. Main point: Remind the children that the main ways of writing the /oa/ sound are «oa, ‘0 and ow, Revise the «o_e spelling of the /oa/ sound, which ean be referred to as ‘or hop-over «ey’. It is important for the children to understand that the ce isa ‘magic @’, Although it makes no sound in the word, the « sends magic over the consonant before it, to change the short vowel sound to a long one. With the children, make a list of words which use ©. Then ask them to make up sentences, using some of the words. To see the difference ‘magic «@” makes, try covering it in some of the words and then reading them again, e.g. ‘hope’ becomes ‘hop’. ‘The words could also be written onto a big tadpole shape. Spelling sheet 16: In each tadpole, the children write «o_e in the spaces. Then they read the words and draw pictures to go with them. Afterwards they colour the sheet. Dictation: Read the words and sentences for the children to write down, The Dictation Master on page 171 may be photocopied onto the back of the spelling sheets for the children to write on. Spelling list: Read the spelling words with the children. As a class, call out the sounds in the regular words, and say the letter names for the tricky words ‘live’ and ‘give’. Tell the children to be particularly careful with ‘live’, as it could take either an /ie/ sound ora short /i/ sound. When reading, they will have to work out which word is meant from the context. Again, despite the d_e» spelling, ‘give’ has an /i! sound. The « is there because English words do not end in «». The longer word ‘tadpole’ has two syllables and can be remembered as ‘tad’ and ‘pole’ for spelling, Dictation Spelling List 16 1. cod 1. rode 4. hop 2. lot 2. rod 5. note 3. snap 3, hope 6. not 4. bone 5. nose 6. home 1, Time to go home, 7. globe 2. Those roses are pink. 8 live 3. The mole is in his hole. 9. give 10. tadpole IT. Tl Tl = a at al JEL