Spelling homework - am I missing something?

[Smithagain]

This week's Year 1 literacy homework is about the different ways to spell words with a long "oa" sound in. So for example, we have rose, coat, own, flown etc.

The final question is "Look at the words which have 'ow' in their spelling. Can you see a spelling pattern? Clue: look at the ends of the words. Write what you notice here."

The words they have given are:
own
flown
low
row

Am I being thick? There is no pattern, is there?

Tell me if I'm missing something, before I yield to the temptation to give the worksheet writer a D minus!

they've all got 'ow' in them but not at the end. OMG i can't do year 1 homework - what am i going to do when ds goes to school???!!!!!

please come back and tell me what the answer is.

they all have the "oa" sound at the end, but are all spelt with an "ow"

perhaps?

The only thing I can think of is that the 'ow' sounds the same whether there is a letter at the end or in front of it. I woudln't say that was a pattern though

ow n twice and
ow w twice

they either end in ow or in own

But so do "cow" and "brown", which have a different sound in them.

Think I'm going to send it back with a big question mark under that section.

All have ow in them, saying the sound "oa", rather than the normal "ow" (as in town) sound.

Could it be : low row shorter oa sound than in flown own?

but if that's it, still seems pointless to me

The worksheet is rubbish (most are IMO) all four words contain the long /O/ sound written "ow" but not in the same position in the words

SSSandy2 in phonics the /O/ sound in all four words is the same and is known as a long /O/ ~ oa as in road oe as in toe o-e as in nose and ow as in blow are all the same phoneme
a short /o/ sound would be o as in hot.

It's worse than rubbish mrz. Now that I've looked at it again, the other words that are alleged to have an /O/ sound in include snore and from

Think we'll just abandon it and send it in uncompleted. If I try and do it with DD1, she'll end up confused.

Is it a published sheet?

It looks like a published sheet. Copyright is LCP Ltd.