Phoneme Detectives

Case: Find alternative spellings for the /ow/ sound.

Start by spotting the /ow/ sounds

in the text on the next page?

Playground Intruder“Come down here! Now!”, shouted the Headteacher. His brown eyes glowered and his eyebrows met in the middle as he frowned at the stranger. She had climbed up to the top of the fountain, her long gown wound around her arm to stop itcatching on the spout. We stood below, still lined up in rowsready to go in after break, staring up at her.

“I don’t want to have a row with you. I know you have got themoneybox. Throw it down and then jump to the ground or wewill surround you. I’m going to count to five. 1, 2, 3, 4 – ”.

Suddenly she leapt down onto the grass without a sound, stillholding onto the box. The headteacher pounced, but sheslipped away, bounding across the playground, over the walland out into the traffic. We just stood there, stunned andspeechless, astounded by what had just happened.

ow

now

ou

found

Now play a SORTING GAME

to investigate the BEST GUESSES

for spelling /ow/?

Best GuessesThe best guesses:

At the end of a word or followed by n:

Most other words:

ow and ou

ow

ou