Sc spelling and pronunciation activities
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Sc with pronounced C and silent C practice, starting with a quick reactions game, with contrasts to words with SK and S, homophones, and silent letters.
Lesson Plan Content:
Sc spelling and pronunciation activities
Words with sc and not simplest responses game
Without looking below, listen to your teacher or a classmate and race to hold up your hand if you think there is SC together in the word. Don’t raise your hand if there is just S, SK, S and C with other letters in between, etc. You get five points if you are the first to raise your hand when the word contains “SC” together, but everyone who raises their hands when there isn’t “S+C” together in the word loses one point. If you aren’t sure, ask for an example sentence or just wait for the next example.
Words with and without for the teacher or other students to read out
Level 1
skateboard skating scared scary school
ski skill scissors skis score sky
Level 2
biscuit scales skills scan
skate scooter scout Scottish
science sight skinny screen
Level 3
descend fascinating miscellaneous misc. musk
scrap scream scandal Scandinavian escape
landscape scenery scenic skin scan
skirt scratch skydive
Level 4
descent decent discipline fluorescent
obscene absent scaffold scam
skim skeleton scenario skewer
sewer scholar skid skinned
scone skin-tight scoop screw
script scrapped scrub scruffy
scrum sculpture skunk skull
Level 5
abscess abscond ascend askew disciple
helter-skelter incandescent scab scald scree
scamper skanky scant skint scarper
escarpment sceptre septic sciatica skiff
scoff scimitar skimpy scrimp
scintilla scintillating scion skipper
scupper skirmish skit skittle
scatter skive scorn scour
scram scrawl screech scuffle
skulk skullcap sculpt skulduggery
scum succumb viscount
Do the same, but listening to your teacher or classmate say a word in a sentence to give context. Listen to the context carefully, because with these there is always another word with exactly the same pronunciation in the opposite category.
Homophones of words with SC to listen to in context
- scene/ seen
- scent/ sent
- muscle/ mussel
- ska/ scar
- cents/ scents
- assent/ ascent
S and SC spelling practice
Put a C into one of the two words on each line below that needs it to be spelt correctly.
Levels 1 and 2
- sissors/ sitters
- sience/ sight
Level 3
- decent/ desend
- fasinated/ fastener
- messy/ misellaneous
- senery/ sunny
- senate/ senic
Level 4
- disease/ disipline
- fluoresent/ frosted
- absent/ obsene
- sabbatical/ senario
Level 5
- absent/ absess
- asend/ asset
- disappear/ disiple
- incandesent/ incantation
- septic/ septre
- sintilla/ sister
- sintillating/ sizeism
Silent letters in SC words
Put brackets around any silent letters in the words below. Some have no silent letters.
Levels 1 and 2
scared school scissors score
biscuit scales scooter Scottish
science screen
Level 3
descend fascinated miscellaneous misc.
scrap scream scandal landscape
scenery scenic scout
Level 4
descent discipline fluorescent obscene
scaffold scam scenario scholar
scone screw script scrapped
scruffy scrum sculpture
Level 5
abscess abscond ascend disciple
incandescent scree scamper scant
scarper sceptre sciatica scoff
scimitar scrimp scintilla scintillating
scion scupper scorn scour
scram scrawl screech scrimp
scuffle sculpt scum
viscount
Hint: The silent letters are C, S, U and H.
What are the rules/ patterns for when C is pronounced and not pronounced in “sc-” words?
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