TEST 4.6

Spelling words with ous eous or ious correctly Select the correctly spelt word to complete each sentence. No: 1

Certain species of snakes live in ________ regions

mountaineous

mountainous

montainous

mowntainous

No: 2

They have ________ degrees of deadly venom.

vareous

various

varys

varieous

No: 3

The venom in their systems is ________.

poisonous

poisonious

posonous

poisionous

No: 4

They can be ________ to humans.

dangerous

dangereous

dangerious

dangeres

No: 5

Mountain climbers should be extremely _______.

cautious

cauteous

cautiuos

causions

No: 6

Many ________ climbers have been killed in the past.

famous

fameous

famious

famuos

No: 7

Walking through the rock can be ________.

hazardious

hazardeous

hazardos

hazardous

No: 8

As a climber, I'm always ________.

nervous

nerveous

nervious

nerveus

No: 9

Provision of anti-venom injections will prevent loss of _________ lives

precous

precious

percious

pecious

• • Letter identification and association
  • Consonant and Vowel Combinations
  • Phoneme identification skills (consonants)
  • Phoneme identification (vowels)
  • word building: initial consonants
  • The final consonant blends
  • Initial Consonant blends
  • Name - picture association
  • Understanding the final consonant blends
  • identifying the short vowel --- the median letter]
  • Identifying the initial and final consonant blends
  • Picture-Name Association
  • Recognizing identical letters
  • Associating pictures with words
  • [Picture--Name Association
  • Spelling the median letters [vowels]
  • Beginning to spell
  • Beginning to spell and write
  • Beginning to read(Reading phrases)
  • Beginning to read sentences
  • Comprehension Help Desk
• • Learning to spell with rhymes: pictures and words
  • Spelling words with double consonants: ll, ss, ff, ck
  • Spelling rhyming double consonants
  • Spelling consonant (clusters) blends
    *Initial consonant blends
    *final consonant blends
    *Review of consonant blends
  • Spelling word ending in nk
  • Adding suffixes s and es to words to make plurals
  • Recognising plural words
  • Adding and spelling the suffixes: ing  ed  er
  • Adding er and est to form adjectives.
  • Spelling words with long vowels: a -- e     i--e     o--e     u--e
  • Spelling vowel pairs [digraphs]: ai   ay   ea   ee
  • Recognizing vowel pairs
  • Spelling words with vowel pairs: oo    oe    ie au    ue
  • Spelling words with vowels and consonant r pair: ar er ir or urWord List
  • [Spelling words with r -controlled vowels] Select the correct r-controlled vowel (vowel + r pair) to complete the name of each picture.
  • Using r-controlled vowels in context
  • Homophones and near homophones
  • Spelling consonants pair [digraphs]: sh, ch
  • Spelling words with similar sounds oi and oy
• • Adding suffixes beginning with vowels to multisyllabic words
  • Spelling words with the similar ou and ow sounds
  • Words with similar sounds of oi and oy
  • Words with r-controlled vowels
  • Identifying r-controlled vowels
  • Using r-controlled vowels [ar er or] to show professions or vocations
  • Homophones
  • Spelling the confusing words with ie and ei sounds
  • Spelling words withie andei correctly
  • Spelling the c and g sounds
  • Identifying words with 'c' sounds
  • Soft and hard g sounds
  • Spelling words with similar and confusing ce and se endings
  • Spelling the many sounds of j
  • Homophones --- words with the same sounds, different meanings and spellings.
  • Spelling words with silent letters
  • Identifying silent letters
  • Spelling Silent letters: k, t, l, g
  • Spelling silent words in context
  • Silent vowels: a, e, u
  • Spelling silent vowels correctly
  • Reading rhyming blends
  • Prefixes
  • Understanding prefixes
  • Adding the suffix ly to adjectives to form adverbs
• • Adding the suffixes s, es, ies, ed, ied, ing
  • Summary of suffixes s,es, ies, d/ed ,ied,ing
  • Adding the suffixes tion and sion
  • Spelling words ending in ture or sure
  • Spelling words ending in ous, eous, or ious
  • Spelling words with ous eous or ious correctly
  • Apostrophe positions in singular and plural words [nouns]
  • Spelling pitfalls: vowel diagraph ie and ei
  • Spelling ie and ei words correctly
  • The Y-rule Spelling
  • Homophone Check
  • Spelling Words with ai, ay Sounds
  • Understanding words with ai and ay
  • Spelling ee, ea, and ey words
  • Spelling words with vowel pairs
  • Using words with vowel pairs in context
  • Vowel Digraph: oa, ow
  • Spelling words with oa or ow
  • Spelling the oi and oy words
  • Spelling words with ou, au or aw
  • Using ou, au, awword list in context
  • Spelling the digraph sounds: oo, ew, ui
  • Representing sounds correctly
  • Review vowel digraphs
  • Understanding word list of hard and soft c and g
  • Spelling confusing ce and se endings
  • More spellings of the j sound
  • Spelling the f sound
  • Identifying all f sounds
  • Spelling the r-controlled vowels in words
  • Identifying the correct r-controlled vowels in words
  • Adding and spelling words with suffixes -ful and -ly
  • Homophone Check
  • Homographs
• • Spelling au, ou, aw words in context
  • Homophones of words with au, ou sounds
  • Words with ough sounds
  • Spelling words with similar /f/ sounds
  • Spelling the similar sounds of ch, tch
  • Homophones
  • Prefixes
  • The prefixes im, in, il, ir
  • The prefixes em,en,non
  • Spelling words with prefixes: over, under, sub
  • Spelling the prefixes: mis, de, semi
  • Spelling the prefixes: mis,de,semi
  • Spelling prefixes: anti,mid,trans,super
  • Review of prefixes
  • The 'shun' word endings and suffixes
  • Spelling the 'Shun' words correctly
  • Spelling the word endings: al, le, el
  • The cial, tial, cient word endings
  • The ous , eous , ious, uous word endings
  • Isolating correct spellings
  • Identifying the incorrect spellings
  • Adding and spelling --ance , --ancy or--ency
  • Identifying words ending in ance,ancyandence
  • Adding and spelling the suffixes less , ness , or ment
  • Spelling words that end with less,ness or ment
  • Spelling words that end with less,ness or ment
  • Adding and spelling the suffixes: ity and ility
  • Spelling words with suffixes dom, hood and ship
  • Spelling Words ending in -ary, -ery, -ory
  • Spelling ary, ery, ory as suffixes
  • The Spellers' pitfalls
  • The vowel pitfalls
  • The homophone trap
  • The s or c spelling challenge