In this commonly misspelt objective, children will explore words containing /ɒ/ sound, spelt with the letter a after the letters w and qu. In three 15 minute lessons children will:

Explore the short /o/ sounds represented with the grapheme o Learn that the grapheme a represents the short /o/ sound after a the graphemes w and qu Learn that that the words wonder and wander are near homophones Learn about the history of the word quarrel Find the correct spelling of words that use the grapheme a to represent the /o/ sound Solve riddles to spell words with the grapheme a after qu making the short sound /o/ Learn that the letter cluster squ is a submorpheme and see how other words with this cluster are linked in meaning

Resources included:

Editable PowerPoint covering three 15 minute lessons A teacher lesson plan to support each lesson Supporting worksheets 2 fluency activities (with answers) A reasoning activity (with answers)...