You are going to practice using the dictionary to classify words into the two different ways in which "ow" and "ou" words are pronounced. For example we have the /au/ or /ou/ sound you hear in CLOWN, or the /ow/ or /oh/ sound you hear in THROW.
The letters in red represent phonetic symbols which tell us how the word sounds and you will see them in a dictionary.
If you look for the word "clown" in the dictionary you may find a symbol like this [kloun] which represent how you shoul pronounce the word with "au" pronunciation. If you look for "throw" you will find [throh] which means that this word is pronounced with the "ou" sound.
Here you have al list of words. Get into http://www.dictionary.com/ and check out the words in the list.
In your notebook classify them into two columns:
"/ow/-/oh/ sound" "/au/ -/ou/ sound"
Here are the words to check:
1. about 11. loud
2. crown 12. town
3. blow 13. found
4. town 14. count
5. blow 15. pounce
6. cow 16. shout
7. cloud 17. mouth
8. round 18. low
9. bound 19. south
10. mount 20. slow
When you finish, click on the link below and check if you can do the quiz:
https://www.spellzone.com/unit15/page1.cfm
Play a spelling game at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/sandcastle/flash/game.shtml