Wh spelling and pronunciation activities
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
How to spell and pronounce words with W+H review, starting with a fun game, and including silent letters, homophones, and comparisons to words spelled with just W.
Lesson Plan Content:
Wh spelling and pronunciation activities
Words with wh and not simplest responses game
Listen to your teacher or a classmate and race to hold up your hand if you think there is WH together in the word. Don’t raise your hand if there is just W, just H, W and H with other letters in between, etc. You get five points if you are the first person to raise your hand when the word contains WH together, but everyone who raises their hands when there isn’t WH together in the word loses one point. If you aren’t sure, ask for an example sentence or just wait for the next example.
Level 1
- somewhere
- wait
- want
- what
- water
- we’re
- when
- went
- were
- whiskey
- white
- who
Level 2
- anywhere
- nightwear
- nowhere
- whale
- wheelchair
- well
- while
- whistle
- whole
- whose
Level 3
- eveningwear
- everywhere
- meanwhile
- wharf
- wasp
- wheat
- whereabouts
- whereas
- whether
- whilst
- whip
- wipe
- wisdom
- wish
- whiskey
- whisper
- whistle
- with
- whodunnit
- wholesale
- whoops
Level 4
- antiwhaling
- elsewhere
- freewheeler
- overweight
- overwhelm
- somewhat
- underwater
- underwhelm
- wall
- wharf
- wash
- washer
- widowhood
- wild
- whilst
- wipers
- whiplash
- wireless
- whirlwind
- wishful
- whisk
- whisker
- whiten
- witty
- whoever
- wholemeal
- wholly
- whom
- woof
- whoops
- worthwhile
- worthy
Level 5
- arrowhead
- clawhammer
- coward
- cowherd
- double whammy
- erstwhile
- narwhal
- overweening
- overwhelming
- unwholesome
- whack
- wailed
- wall
- wham
- warm
- warping
- watch
- wearing
- weeding
- wheeled
- wheedling
- wheelie
- wheeziness
- whereabouts
- wherein
- werewolf
- western
- whetstone
- whichever
- widowed
- widowhood
- wife
- whiff
- wi-fi
- whiffy
- wild
- wily
- whim
- whimper
- wimpy
- whimsy
- win
- windy
- wing
- whinge
- winner
- whinny
- whirl
- whirr
- wise
- witchcraft
- witness
- wittily
- whittle
- woke
- woody
- whoopee
- whoosh
- whopping
wh words and homophones
Do the same, but this time listening to your teacher or classmate say a word in context in a sentence (not just as a single word). Listen to the context carefully, because there is always another word with exactly the same pronunciation in the opposite category.
Level 1
where/ wear
why/ Y
Level 2
wheel/ we’ll
which/ witch
Level 3
whether/ weather
whole/ hole
Level 4
whys/ wise
wholly/ holy
whirled/ world
Level 5
whiz/ wiz
whale/ wail
whet/ wet
whey/ way
whine/ wine
whirred/ word
wh and not spelling
Put an H into one of the two words on each line below that needs it to be spelt correctly.
Level 1
- wait/ wite
- wat/ water
- wen/ went
- were/ we’re
Level 2
- nightwear/ nowere
- well/ wile
Level 3
- anyhow/ anywere
- eveningwear/ everywere
- waist/ wereas
- weat/ with
- wip/ wipe
- wisdom/ wiskey
- wish/ wistle
Level 4
- overweight/ overwelm
- underwater/ underwelm
- wall/ warf
- wash/ wisk
- washer/ wisker
- wild/ wilst
- wipers/ wiplash
- wireless/ wirlwind
- wishful/ wisper
- witen/ witty
- worthwile/ worthy
Level 5
- coward/ cowerd
- overweening/ overwelming
- wack/ woke
- wailed/ weeled
- wall/ wirr
- wam/ warm
- warping/ wopping
- watch/ woosh
- wearing/ werein
- weeding/ weedling
- weelchair/ Wiltshire
- weelie/ wily
- weeziness/ witness
- wereabouts/ werewolf
- western/ wetstone
- wichever/ witchcraft
- widowed/ widowood
- wife/ wiff
- wiffy/ wi-fi
- wild/ wirl
- wim/ win
- wimper/ winner
- wimpy/ wimsy
- windy/ winny
- wing/ winge
- wise/ wiz
- wittily/ wittle
- wo/ woo
- woody/ woopee
- woof/ woops
Add W to one of the two words on each line below that needs it.
- holesale/ hostel
- ho/ hoot
- hoots/ hose
- hoever/ hoover
- haunted/ hodunit
- holdup/ holesome
- hores/ horse
- homesteader/ homever
- holemeal/ home rule
Silent letters in wh words
Put brackets around any silent letters in the words below. Some have no silent letters.
Level 1
- somewhere
- what
- when
- where
- which
- whiskey
- white
- who
- why
Level 2
- anywhere
- everywhere
- whale
- wheelchair
- while
- whistle
- whole
- whose
Level 3
- meanwhile
- nowhere
- wharf
- wheat
- whereabouts
- whereas
- whether
- whilst
- whisper
- whodunnit
- wholesale
- whoops
- worthwhile
Level 4
- antiwhaling
- elsewhere
- eveningwear
- freewheeler
- overwhelm
- somewhat
- underwhelm
- whip
- whirlwind
- whisk
- whiten
- whoever
- wholemeal
- wholly
- whom
- widowhood
Level 5
- arrowhead
- blowhard
- chowhound
- clawhammer
- cowhand
- erstwhile
- narwhal
- sawhorse
- towhead
- unwholesome
- whack
- whacko
- double whammy
- wheedling
- wheelie
- wheeziness
- whetstone
- whey
- whiffy
- whim
- whimper
- whimsical
- whine
- whinge
- whinny
- whirr
- whiskers
- whiz
- whomsoever
- whoopee
- whoosh
- whopping
Hint: Most words above have silent H
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