Primarily designed for school or literacy specialist use, Oz Phonics 6 is the 2nd app in the advanced spelling patterns part of the Oz Phonics system.
This app covers the /long O/, /long U/, oo as in soon, oo as in look, ou as in out, and ou as in oil sounds and their many spellings. Multiple vowel sound spellings make the English language tricky to both read and spell for students with poor phonics knowledge. This app shows the student multiple spellings, then reinforces each main spelling with a set of exercises restricted to one spelling pattern at a time. Alternative spellings (like ‘ew’ making the /long o/ sound in the word sew) are also covered along with homophones (toe’, ‘tow’, ‘no’, ‘know’).
The app should prove invaluable to primary schools aiming to teach their students the full English phonics code.
Note: before using this app, students should have a good working knowledge of the “basic phonics code” developed in our Intro,1, 2, 3, and 4 apps. Alternatively, students should have completed a basic phonics code component of an another phonics system covering short vowels, consonants and their common (not all) spellings.
App Summary
/Long O/ sound
/Long O/ sound main spellings intro - ‘o-e’, ‘o’, ‘oa’, ‘ow’
Sort by spelling pattern exercise
For each of the 4 main spellings:
- spelling balloons - complete the phoneme(letters) in words using the spelling pattern
- word finder - all the words use the same /long O/ spelling pattern. Words are sounded out when located
- Spelling Pen and Paper - an app directed pen and paper exercise spelling words using the same spelling pattern
- some example sentences with tappable words.
Other /Long O/ spellings - 12 other less common or frequent /long O/ spellings.
Sentence Reading with uncommon /long O/ spellings
Homophones
Examples of /Long O/ homophones like ‘toe’, ‘tow’, etc. .
Long U/ sound
Long U sound main spellings intro - ‘u-e’ , ’u, ’ue’, ‘ew’
Sort by spelling pattern exercise
For each of the 4 main spellings:
- spelling balloons - complete the phoneme(letters) in words using the spelling pattern
- Spelling Pen and Paper - an app directed pen and paper exercise spelling words using the same spelling pattern
- some example sentences with tappable words.
- word finder for u-e, u and ue spellings.
Other /Long U/ spellings - 9 other less common or frequent /long U/ spellings.
Homophones
Examples of /Long U/ homophones like phew and few.
"Sort by Spelling", Word Finder", "Spelling Balloon, "Spelling Pen and Paper" and " "Sentence Reading" exercises for each of the following sounds/spellings:
- oo as in moon sound
- oo as in look
- ou as in out
- oi as in soil