1. Spelling for Older Students
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Lesson 19 oa
Created for SPELD SA by Jan Polkinghorne

2. Sounds in a word oa-v-a-l 4 c-oa-s-t 4 r-oa-s-t 4
Say the names of these pictures. Use your fingers to count how many sounds in each word. NOTE that is sounds not letters.
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oa-v-a-l c-oa-s-t r-oa-s-t 4

3. Rhyming words. Find words to rhyme with each of these.
nest
pest
rest
best
guessed
guest
jest
messed
quest
test
ball
wall
call
tall
small
all
fall
Paul
mall

4. What is the same about these pictures. Say the words aloud.
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They all have oa sound:
Hoe, goat, doe, coach, oak, crow, coat, float, toad, boat, mow, toast, slow, coast
Toadstool, soap, soak, chrome, road, roast.

5. Sort all of your bottle top letters into vowels and consonants.
‘oa’ is a long vowel. All letters in our alphabet belong to one of two groups
Long ‘o’ is a two-sound vowel that ends in a brief ‘w’ sound.
Part 1: The tongue is pushed back and in a low-to-mid mouth position and the bottom teeth can be felt along the sides of the tongue.
Part 2: The sound moves into a w sound by raising the jaw slightly while closing the lips into a small circle. The body of the tongue moves upward until the tongue is near the back.
Sort all of your bottle top letters into vowels and consonants.
We need to know whether a letter is a vowel or consonant to help us apply spelling rules.

6. Use your ears and listen carefully.
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Use your ears and listen carefully.

7. Use your ears and listen carefully.
BEWARE!
Use your ears and listen carefully.
A bad-tempered goat lives in a field at the side of a road. He gets very cross if any other animal comes into his field. Mona and her brother, Jonah, often walk past the field and talk to the goat. One windy day, Mona and Jonah are going to the park to have a picnic and sail Jonah’s model boat. As they pass by, they can see the goat is very cross. He is stamping his hooves and snorting beside an oak tree, which is blowing in the wind. Up in the tree are two cheeky robins and a squirrel. The robins have been flying down and stealing oats from the goat. The goat charges at the tree and butts the trunk as hard as he can. CRASH! The tree falls on top of the goat. “Oh!” say Mona and Jonah. They run to get the farmer, who comes to rescue the goat.

8. How to write the letter ‘oa’
Linked script is far better to write than printing. It is faster, easier, more comfortable to write for long periods and your brain learns the words better if they are linked. 1
Oa oa toadstool 1 2
ow oe

9. Two rules help a little:
Long oa is one of the hardest vowels to write . It has many different spellings.
The four most common are : o, oa, oe & o-e, and ow.
Two rules help a little:
1 If the short vowel doesn’t work try the long vowel sound.
2 When two vowels are together the first says its alphabet name and the second is silent.
Recognising oa when reading is easier than knowing which one to use when writing.
Try using scrap paper to try out all the options.

10. When writing oa words when in doubt try o-e first.
o-e most common rose nose hose robe smoke open# over# home stone hope lone * oa
next most common
coach
poach
load
road*
toad
loaf
oak
soak
foam ow
usually on end
bow
low
mow
crow
tow*
blow
grow
slow
arrow
below oe
on end not common
toe*
foe
woe
oboe
*# See notes
When writing oa words when in doubt try o-e first.

11. A large group of words- many of them from other languages -use o at the end.

12. How many words can you make using these letters
How many words can you make using these letters? p, s, t, n, g, ow, oa, m, ck You may use a letter as many times as you like in a word. What is the longest word you can make?
You might be able to apply the doubling rule if you think of longer words.

13. Tricky Words – non phonetic
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like
where
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I’m
why

14. Time to do the revision for Set 18 Tricky Words

15. Instructions.
Slide 2 counting sounds in a word. The answer is frequently not the same as the number of letters in the word.
Slide 3 Rhyming words
Slide 4 Hearing long oa sound.
Slide 5– knowing vowels and consonants is vital for learning spelling rules. Multisensory learning (feeling the formation of a sound) is useful for many students. Rule 1: If the short vowel pronunciation doesn’t work to make a word try the long vowel.
Slide 6 and 7. Read the story for long oa aloud. Ask each student to keep a tally of how many oa sounds they hear in the story. Compare results. They need to use ears not eyes. Hand each student a copy of the story. Read it aloud again and have students mark each ‘oa’ sound as they go. Beware – not very letter o makes an oa sound!
Slide 8–writing oa and ow and linking. Handwriting I have used Sego Script because it is freely available on most computers . Research is now showing that linked script is more ergonomic and helps with retention of spelling. Many prospective employers are expecting job applications to be handwritten and many exams have to be handwritten. It is still a necessary skill.
Slide 9 – The 4 most common ways of writing long oa sound in English are: o-e ( most common), oa next most common, ow (usually on the end of a word, and o.
Slide 10- The 4 most common ways of writing long oa sound in English . * means it is a homophone . This is a good time to explain this term to students . # open and over the e is doing two jobs- changing o into long oe and making er sound in over and e sound in open.
Slide 11- A large group of words , many from other languages just use o saying its long name on the end. Have students blend the words to work out what they are.
Slides 12 How many long oa words can students make?
Slide 13 and 14 Tricky words. These words are high frequency, often non phonetic and have to be learnt by rote for both spelling and reading. Spell with alphabet names. Do not sound.