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The 'er' spellings, including 'er', 'ir' and 'ur'

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In this unit, pupils learn new GPCs for long vowels.  In ‘Year 2: 'Alternative GPCS for consonants and homophones’, pupils learn new GPCs for consonants.

In this unit, pupils learn new GPCs (grapheme phoneme correspondences) for long vowel sounds.

Alternative GPCs for long vowels

Pick the spelling that matches the sentence. Please __________ here.

Choose the 'er' spellings that match to the words.

Match the grapheme to where they commonly appear in a word.

Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence. She came **thurd** in the race.

Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence. The cat ran after the **berd**.

Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence. The children went to visit the **cherch**.

Match each word to the number of phonemes it contains.

Choose two more spellings that can also represent the sound  '**er**', like in nev**er**.

Choose the word that rhymes with **bird**.

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