Level O
O01 Additional long /o/ : long /e/ : 'a' as /ar/
moment hotel secret beyond become
rather mast mask basket
blast
O02 Additional 'ea'
breast leather feather wealth steady
health death dreamt breakfast
O03 Introduce suffixes 'ful'' : 'less' : 'ness'
ful (full of)
careful
less (without)
careless
ness (a state of being) thickness
O04 Introduce prefix 're'
redo repaint revisit return
rearrange reread rebuild
O05 Additional ''air' : 'oi'
repair dairy flair
spoilt
hopeful
hopeless
coldness
remake
point
toil
thankful
thankless
kindness
relight
moist
helpful
helpless
slowness
rejoin
joint
coil
hoist
O06 Additional 'o' : 'ou' as /u/
Introduce 'oo' as /u/
cover glove won sponge month front touch
couple cousin country blood flood
O07 Additional 'c' as /s/
city recent fancy
accept advice
O08 Introduce long 'u' : 'oe'
tutor music during
concert
emu
peace
toe
piece
field
shield
since
parcel
foe
O09 Additional 's' as /z/ : 'ou' as /oo/
advise whose lose prison wound
O10 Introduce 'ie'
chief thief
except
group
tour
tourist
niece
O11 Additional 'ur' : 'ar'
further purple nurse purse burnt
awkward lizard collar popular sugar
O12 Introduce 'ui' Additional single sounds
suit fruit juice milk golf district
O13 Adding suffixes
steadily countries thieves
healthy wealthy recently
nurses
melt
losing
insist
bulb
sugarless
pest
self
peaceful
Some appropriate rules have been listed at the end of each strip list.
For more details please refer to SMART WORDS SIGNPOSTS TO CORRECT SPELLING
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O01
DAY 1
O02
DAY 1
O03
DAY 1
O04
DAY 1
moment
breast
careful
redo
hotel
leather
hopeful
repaint
secret
feather
thankful
revisit
beyond
wealth
careless
return
become
steady
hopeless
remake
rather
health
helpless
relight
mast
death
thickness
rejoin
mask
dreamt
coldness
rearrange
basket
breakfast
kindness
reread
slowness
rebuild
blast
* ‘a’ says /ar/ before ‘st’, ‘sk’,
‘th’.
* The ‘er’ on the ends of these
words is sounded as the
"schwa" (grunt) sound.
* Change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ when
adding ‘es’, ‘ed’, ‘er’, ‘est’ to
base words that end in
‘consonant / y’.
* The suffix ‘ful’ means “full
of” and has only one ‘l’.
* The suffix 'less' means
"without". The suffix 'ness'
means "a state of"
* The suffixes ‘ness’ and ‘less’
have double ‘ss’.
* The prefix “re” means ‘to
do again’.
* Keep the base word intact
when adding prefixes.
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O05
DAY 1
O06
DAY 1
O07
DAY 1
repair
cover
city
dairy
glove
recent
flair
won
fancy
spoilt
sponge
concert
point
month
peace
toil
front
except
moist
touch
since
joint
couple
parcel
coil
cousin
accept
hoist
country
advice
blood
flood
* ‘oi’ never appears at the end of a word.
The /oi/ sound on the end of a word is
represented by ‘oy’.
* Change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ when adding ‘es’
to form a plural of a base word ending
in ‘consonant / y’.
* ‘c’ takes the /s/ sound when it appears
before ‘e’, ‘i’ or ‘y’.
* Change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ when forming
extensions of base words ending in
‘consonant / y’.
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O08
DAY 1
O09
DAY 1
O10
DAY 1
tutor
advise
chief
music
whose
thief
during
lose
piece
emu
prison
field
toe
wound
shield
foe
group
niece
tour
tourist
* Use 'c' for the /ck/ sound on the end of
words that have two or more syllables and
where the previous vowel is 'i'. sick, music
* Remove the 'e' when adding 'ing' to
words that end in 'e'.
* ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’ when the
sound they represent is /ee/. Exceptions:
weir, weird, seize, protein, caffeine
* Change the ‘f’ to ‘v’ , add ‘es’ when
making plurals of words ending in ‘f’.
Exception: chief.
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O11
DAY 1
O12
DAY 1
O13
DAY 1
further
suit
steadily
purple
fruit
countries
nurse
juice
thieves
purse
milk
nurses
burnt
golf
losing
awkward
district
sugarless
lizard
melt
peaceful
collar
insist
healthy
popular
bulb
wealthy
sugar
pest
recently
self
* The ‘ar’ in these words is sounded as the
schwa (ə) or grunt sound.
* Change the ‘f’ to ‘v’ , add ‘es’ when
making plurals of words ending in ‘f’.
Exception: chief.
* Always identify the base word before
adding prefixes and suffixes.
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