1. Week 10 suffix –ful homohones vowel combinations
Word Wall Words
Week 10
suffix –ful
homohones
vowel combinations

2. This week’s WWWs are…
about
our
there
thought
beautiful

3. Put the WWWs in ABC order…
about
beautiful
our
there
thought

4. What is a homophone?
Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different definitions.

5. What are this week’s homophones?
our
there

6. What are the other homophones for there?
they’re
and
their

7. What is the other homophone for our?
hour

8. Put the correct homophone in each sentence…
We were (their, there, they’re) when grandma came over.
Is that (their, there, they’re) new puppy?
I think (their, there, they’re) nice people.
I need to be at work in an (hour, our).
I think we are going to (hour, our) house.

9. Try this… http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/homophones htm (homophones)
junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html
(various games)
(/aw/ and /ow/ 7th and 10th postcards)

10. What sound does the vowel combination /ou/ make?
/aw/ as in:
thought
lawn
taught
/ow/ as in:
our
about
pow

11. Which of this week’s WWWs has a suffix?
beautiful
What is the suffix?
-ful
What is the root/base word?
beauty

12. Why does the base word look different from the word with the suffix?
When you add a suffix to a word that ends in y you have to change the y to an i before adding the suffix.

13. What does suffix –ful mean?
Suffix –ful means full of.
She is beautiful.
She is full of beauty.
Adding suffix –ful turns a noun into an adjective.
beauty-noun beautiful-adjective

14. What do these suffix –ful words mean?
hopeful
full of hope
tasteful
full of taste/ with a lot of taste
helpful
full of help
careful
full of care/ with a lot of care

15. Try this… http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/homophones htm (homophones)
junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html
(various games)
(/aw/ and /ow/ 7th and 10th postcards)

16. FANTASTIC JOB!