Target Level 4 - Bread and
Butter Skills – Common Letter
Strings
Icons key:
For more detailed instructions, see the Getting Started presentation
Flash activity. These activities are not editable.
Extension activities
1 of 23
Web addresses
Teacher’s notes included in the Notes Page
Accompanying worksheet
© Boardworks Ltd 2006
High frequency words – Common
letter strings
Common letter strings
2 of 23
© Boardworks Ltd 2006
Letter
strings
Look at the words below.
Does the ‘our’ letter string always make the same
sound?
armour
hour
flour
ourselves
pour
tour
journey
sour
The ‘our’ letter string makes a number of different
sounds, e.g. flour and pour.
Word sounds
Word sounds
There are only five words that end eight:
freight
height
fright
eight
sleight
light
weight
This is one
sound
pattern.
This is
another
sound
pattern.
bright
fight
right
night
sight
These
words make
the same
sound as
height and
sleight.
-ight is a
more
common
spelling for
this sound.
Letter
strings
Here are some letter strings which have different
pronunciations.
Can you think of two words, which are pronounced
differently, for each letter string?
Letter string
ough
ear
ice
aus
Examples
plough, cough
bear, near
spice, apprentice
pause, claustrophobia