Teaching Notes

The slide ‘Words for Sorting’ links to the ‘Linguistic Phonics

Phase 2 ‘ow’ Sound Sorting Activity Sheet’
that can be printed for pupils.

There is a ‘Linguistic Phonics Phase 2 ‘ow’ Sound Search

Activity Sheet’ to link to the ‘Sound Search’ slide text
(story) containing words with the ‘ow’ sound. This
Activity Sheet has the same text as the PowerPoint, so
that the pupils can highlight the words containing the
target sound.
The ‘ow’ Sound
Phase 3a

Linguistic Phonics | Phase 3a | The ‘ow’ Sound

 Words for Investigation

Ways that the ‘ow’ sound may appear

owl clown in a word in this phase:

loud count ow – like in now

howl count ou – like in count

sound shout

crowd outside

cow house
 Words for Sorting

crowd loud howl

sound count owl

cow shout clown

outside house how

 Word Sort
Here are the headings for your word sort.

ow ou
 Which One Looks Right?
Whiteboards out! Try and fill the gaps.

The big c was looking at the cl and was

clapping and .

Possible Words:
cloun shouting
croud
clouwn showting
crowd
clown showtingh
crowed
 Which One Looks Right? Answers
Whiteboards out! Try and fill the gaps.

TheThe
bigbig
c crowd was
was looking
looking at
at the
the cl
clown andand
waswas
clappingand
clapping andshouting.
.

Possible Words:
cloun shouting
croud
clouwn showting
crowd
clown showtingh
crowed
 Sound Search
Read the story. Can you find any ‘ow’ words? Look for ow or ou.

Remember to read the word to check it has the right sound before you highlight it.

The owl outside the house does not make a sound

when it sees the brown mouse.
It flies down to get it. I shout
out loud when I see how
quickly it can pounce.
That is how owls hunt.
 Sound Search Answers
Read the story. Can you find any ‘ow’ words? Look for ow or ou.

Remember to read the word to check it has the right sound before you highlight it.

The owl outside the house does not make a sound

when it sees the brown mouse.
It flies down to get it. I shout
out loud when I see how
quickly it can pounce.
That is how owls hunt.