Homework help please....words containing 'OU' please (as in could, should...)

[SlightlyMadSweden]

DTDs have to write wordlists each week focusing on a different sound(s).

This week we have words containing "ou" with th sound 'u'. We are really struggling...any other suggestions

Should
Could
Would
Rough

Not entirely sure I get this but how about 'continuous'?

I pronounce them to rhyme with 'good'

put and but how on earth can they not rhymne?????

How on earth can synthetic phenomes work across dialects?

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Pruners thats how I pronounce Luff-b-ruh (and I am local)

But then I apparently pronounce Bath wrong despite living there for 3 years.

SMS - I thought exxactly that with but and put. It was only when I listen to a friend from Surrey say the two words together that I realised that for them they don't rhyme.

Pruners are you pronouncing put as poot as in boot (as in things on your feet)?

Are you also pronouncing could as cood as in boot (as in things on your feet)?

put rhymes with foot
but rhymes with cut

Yeah but foot rhymnes with cut i my house.

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The whole of synthetic phonics teaching crumbles to the ground .......

Pruners....ignored!!!!

I had considered that the Scottish dialect would convert a lot of uhs to oos

SMS - don't worry, foot and cut rhyme for me too And I don't have that strong an accent either!

I am so glad we don't do lots of phonetic stuff all the time at DD's school

Each week they have a sound of the week and consider all of the possible ways of writing that sound...

Last weeks it has been oo, u-e, ew and something else.

It is alien to me, in the sense that I don't ever remember learning the phonics and a word just sounds the way it does because it does IYSWIM. I have never considered the rules. I think the only rules I remember learning were 'kn' and 'qu'

I can't get this to run on my pc, but when you click on deep u, the Real Player comes up with could & should on it - if it works for you it might help.www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/magicpencil/index.shtml

TY Rusty. It looks like a great site. I couldn't get it to run either (saying internet may be too busy). Will have a tweak tomorrow.

I see the schwa is on there but nobody has explained it, and the site doesn't make it obvious...can anyone explain it?

I have just googled it and now I definately need a [head spinning emoticon]

Oh, wow, as a Lundunner I'm really confused now.

To me the vowel sound in 'rough' and 'stuck' is the same - 'ruff' and 'stuc'k.

'Could' rhymes with 'wood' and 'stood', and has the same vowel sound as 'look'.

A schwa is the unstressed vowel sound that you find in, for example, the word 'the' when it isn't before a vowel. It's a kind of 'uh' sound. So for me the ending of 'marvellous' is just a sort of nothing sound. It doesn't rhyme with 'could'.

I don't expect they'll be teaching schwa to 6 year olds.