Letters and Sounds: Phase Five: Best Bet
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Letters and Sounds: Phase Five Best Bet Best Bet - This activity is developed from a resource originally included in Distance Learning Materials, National Literacy Strategy, DfEE 1998. It extends the activity in Letters and Sounds, Page 147. Purpose To develop children’s knowledge of spelling choices for long vowel phonemes: Resources Whiteboards and pens, one per child Selection of words generated from word lists under grapheme headers. Procedure 1. Display the lists of words. 2. Discuss which columns have the most words in them and which the least. Point out that in English some spelling patterns are very rare but that some very common words (e.g. they) have rare spellings. 3. Ask the children if they can spot a pattern (e.g. the ay grapheme occurs at the end of words; the commonest spelling for the phoneme followed by t is ate; the commonest spelling for the phoneme followed by k is ake). 4. Ask the children to write a word not on display containing the same phoneme as some of the words listed (e.g. hay). 5. Where there are potentially two possible spellings ask the children to write which grapheme they think might be in a particular word and decide whether they think it is correct when they have looked at it written down. 6. 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