Year 7
The following list includes words where the ‘au’ diagraph says ‘or’.
- plausible
- slaughter
- nautical
- auburn
- auditorium
- pauper
- audible
- applaud
- staunch
- precaution
- authority
- raucous
- laundry
- haunt
- fauna
- dinosaur
- audience
- authentic
- saunter
- trauma
Year 8
The following list is designed to distinguish between words ending in -ious and -eous. A quick game to reinforce is to decide on hand signals for ‘i’ and ‘e’ and ask students to give that hand signal as words are read from the list in random order.
- contentious
- auspicious
- atrocious
- envious
- cantagious
- devious
- curious
- furious
- gregarious
- conscious
- gorgeous
- nauseous
- righteous
- simultaneous
- homogeneous
- instantaneous
- spontaneous
- simultaneous
- miscellaneous
- courteous