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Target Level 4 - Bread and Butter Skills – Common Letter

Strings

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High frequency words – Common letter strings

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Common letter strings

Letter strings

armour

flour

pour

journey

hour

ourselves

tour

sour

Look at the words below. Does the ‘our’ letter string always make the same sound?

The ‘our’ letter string makes a number of different sounds, e.g. flour and pour.

Word sounds

eight

weight

freight

bright

fight

light

sight

right

night

frightheight

sleight

These words make the same sound as height and sleight. -ight is a more common spelling for this sound.

There are only five words that end eight:

This is one sound pattern.

This is another sound pattern.

Word sounds

Here are some letter strings which have different pronunciations. Can you think of two words, which are pronounced differently, for each letter string?

Letter strings

Letter string Examples

ough

ear

ice

aus

plough, cough

bear, near

spice, apprenticepause, claustrophobia