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bound bout cloud clout couch count crouch douse flout foul found fount gouge gout grouch ground grouse grout hound house joust loud lounge louse lout mound mount mouse mouth noun ouch oust out pouch pound pout proud round rouse rout scout scrounge shout shroud slouch sound south spouse spout stout thou tout trout vouch |
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about aloud announce around astound blouse bounce bounty council counsel county flounder flour fountain grouse hour houses louse mountain mouse ounce our outdoor outside pounce scoundrel scour sour spouse trounce voucher without wound (verb) |
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Found a few more…
aloud
hour
sour
outside / outdoor / outdoors
without
astound
wound (as in ‘She wound the string around the stick’)
spouse
count
fount
mount
Thankyou! Added.
With words such as our, flour and hour….it is more of a dipthong isn’t it? Would you teach these words alongside /ou/ as in foul? Just wondering how you would explain the difference.
Good question, as in my accent the “r” in “flour”, “our”, “sour” etc is a schwa/unstressed vowel, not a consonant, but since we have a lot of American TV here, kids are usually aware that it can be pronounced as a consonant. I tend to leave these words out when first teaching “ou/ow”, but if a child asks about them I add them and encourage the child to say the “r” like an American to help them to remember this spelling, while saying that in our accent in normal speech, it’s just an “uh” sound. In ordinary speech we pronounce word pairs like flour/flower, lyre/liar and hire/higher as homophones, but when spelling these words it’s better to use one’s “spelling voice” and say them the way they are spelt, as this creates a kind of mnemonic for the word structure.
Thank you so much! This helped me a lot.
Thanks,
Moira
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Would doubt fit here? I assume the graphemes would be d ou bt.