Tūī

Brooke

Emilie-Vida

Hunter

James D

there, want, out, could, would, should, all, ball, small, call, other, brother, mother, another, over, after, because, school, people, friend, put, some, were, who, your, what, down, saw.

This week we are learning about using -ur.

The ‘r’ following the vowel distorts the typical vowel sound, creating a new vowel sound (sometimes referred to as a ‘growl vowel’). 'ur' makes the same sound as 'ir', and 'er'. Click this link to go to the website to help remember the difference.
The words for ur include: boat, goat, toad, road, float, soap, moat, etc.

Reading Activties for the Week

Rachel Orange Reading Slideshow

This week we are learning about using -oa.

A vowel team is when two or more letters make the vowel sound. The team does not need to consist of vowels only: igh, eigh, and ough are all vowel teams). oa makes the long /o/ sound.
The words for oa include: boat, goat, toad, road, float, soap, moat, etc.

This week we are learning about using -ea.

A vowel team is when two or more letters make the vowel sound. The team does not need to consist of vowels only: igh, eigh, and ough are all vowel teams). Both ea and ee are additional spellings that make the long /ē/ sound.
The words for ea include: sea, flea, leaf, eat, read, leap, tea, beach, peach, reach, bead, lead, read, leak etc

This week we are learning about using -ee.

A vowel team is when two or more letters make the vowel sound. The team does not need to consist of vowels only: igh, eigh, and ough are all vowel teams). Both ea and ee are additional spellings that make the long /ē/ sound.
The words for ee include: feet, meet, steel, free, seek, weed, deep, steer, breeze, sweet, reel, speech, steer, sheep, bleed, screen, cheek, feel

This week we are learning about using -ie.

ie is a digraph that makes a long i sound, it has the two letters, i and e.
You can find ie in the middle and at the end of words, e.g. pie, tied, cried, tie.

This week we are learning about using -igh.

igh is a phoneme that makes a long i sound, it has the three letters i, g and h.
You can find igh in the middle and at the end of words, e.g. high, bright.

This week we are learning about using -ai.

ai is a phoneme that makes a long ā sound, it has the two letters a and i.
You can find ai in the middle of words, e.g. pain, gain.

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This week we are learning about using -ck.

The longer spelling of /k/ is -ck. The spelling -ck is used straight after a short vowel at the end of a one syllable word.

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