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1 Let's look together
Say out. The letters ou write its first sound. Say cow. The letters ow write the vowel sound there.
Blend from left to right. If you have not learnt a spelling yet, ask your adult to model it.
ou • tc • owshoutbrown
Look, point and talk with your adult.
2 Watch how I do it
I read c-ow: cow. I compare snow from an earlier lesson. The same letters ow can sound different in different words.
3 Your turn
Which group begins out: ou or oo?
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Let's check together
ou.
4 Try it away from the page
Read out, shout, cow and brown. Sort by the spelling, then read the groups aloud.
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Adult notes · prerequisites, safety and coverage
Contrast ow pronunciations only after both are taught. These pages are selected practice, not a complete 40+ phoneme teaching programme.
Read instructions aloud. Word-reading practice must match the child's taught sounds. The phonics pages support, but do not replace, the school's systematic synthetic phonics programme. Shared stories are adult-read unless the child can decode them. Re-read and practise daily.
Connect taught sounds and spellings for decoding.
Practise Year 1 spelling patterns, prefixes and endings.