Primary 4 Common Word Challenge – Mrs Docherty’s Group

Possible Home Learning Activities – remember only do what you can.

Common Words – much, of, or

• Practise writing in the air, on your hand, on the floor.
• Count how many letters/sounds/syllables – remember you can clap the syllables.
• Can you recognise/see any phonemes in the words? If you can, what phonemes can you see?
• Watch ‘or’ video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw3lPTJxoPU
• Watch ‘of’ video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJqw6ZT0lHc
• Watch and sing the Tricky Word song –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0

Possible Written Tasks

• If you can download and print the common word overwrite sheet and put inside a polypocket, you can use this everyday to practise writing each word using a whiteboard pen. You can download the sheet here.  If you can’t download just practise writing each word on a sheet of paper/jotter each day.  Always write each word 3 times.  You could do this in different colours.
• Write super sentences for each word. Try to write a different sentence for each word every day.

Worksheets – some links to worksheets that you can download and print, if you can.

• Common words overwrite much, of, or
• Common word colour spelling – much, of, or