A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound. The long 'oa' phoneme sounds like this:
Sometimes the long 'oa' phoneme is spelt in different ways.
It can be spelt 'ow'.
rainbow
It can also be spelt 'o-e', with a consonant between the 'o' and the 'e'.
bone
Sometimes the letter 'o' on its own can make the long 'oa' phoneme.
ghost
In this activity, you can practise reading and writing these different spellings of the long 'oa' phoneme.