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Spelling: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - The Sound ow (how) (Questions)

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This 'Sound ow' spelling quiz helps elementary school children spell words with this digraph when it is said like ‘how’ and not ‘know’. There are two ways you can say these letters (ow) but this quiz is designed to help children learn words where this digraph is used as ow/ou.

The letters ‘ow’ can be said two ways. If you’re ever unsure, try the word when it sounds like ow/o (no) then try it when it sounds like ow/ou (loud). This quiz will test you on words where the ‘ow’ sound is the same as when you say ‘owl’. Can you spell the missing words?

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1. Bring that ____ here ____!
[ ] owle and now
[ ] owl and now
[ ] owl and know
[ ] owl and nowe
2. ____ old do you have to be to get a birthday card from the queen?
[ ] How
[ ] Who
[ ] Howe
[ ] Whow
3. Sloths have ____ fur.
[ ] browne
[ ] brorn
[ ] bworn
[ ] brown
4. Is this lift going up or ____?
[ ] bown
[ ] bowne
[ ] down
[ ] downe
5. Will you join me on a shopping trip into ____?
[ ] towen
[ ] town
[ ] towne
[ ] towner
6. She had a ____ at her party.
[ ] clown
[ ] clowne
[ ] klown
[ ] klowne
7. Be careful when you go to London, it can get quite ____.
[ ] crowdeded
[ ] crowde
[ ] crowd
[ ] crowded
8. Learn to swim, so you don't ____.
[ ] brown
[ ] drown
[ ] dorown
[ ] durown
9. The bear let out an angry ____.
[ ] jrowl
[ ] growl
[ ] gworl
[ ] gwowl
10. Turn that ____ upside down.
[ ] phrown
[ ] phrowne
[ ] frown
[ ] frowne
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Spelling: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - The Sound ow (how) (Answers)
1. Bring that ____ here ____!
[ ] owle and now
[x] owl and now
[ ] owl and know
[ ] owl and nowe
If there is a 'k' in front of the word now, it not only changes the meaning of the word but also how the 'ow' sound is pronounced.
2. ____ old do you have to be to get a birthday card from the queen?
[x] How
[ ] Who
[ ] Howe
[ ] Whow
The answer is 100. When you reach 100 years old, the queen will send you a birthday card.
3. Sloths have ____ fur.
[ ] browne
[ ] brorn
[ ] bworn
[x] brown
There are around 300 moths that live in their fur! Yuck!
4. Is this lift going up or ____?
[ ] bown
[ ] bowne
[x] down
[ ] downe
Another word for a lift is elevator.
5. Will you join me on a shopping trip into ____?
[ ] towen
[x] town
[ ] towne
[ ] towner
A town is larger than a village but not as big as a city.
6. She had a ____ at her party.
[x] clown
[ ] clowne
[ ] klown
[ ] klowne
Some people are scared of clowns; we say they suffer from coulrophobia.
7. Be careful when you go to London, it can get quite ____.
[ ] crowdeded
[ ] crowde
[ ] crowd
[x] crowded
It can be busy in London because there are more than 8 million people living there!
8. Learn to swim, so you don't ____.
[ ] brown
[x] drown
[ ] dorown
[ ] durown
Did you know that elephants can swim? They can swim up to twenty miles a day!
9. The bear let out an angry ____.
[ ] jrowl
[x] growl
[ ] gworl
[ ] gwowl
Bears use growling as a way of communicating; often it means stay away from me.
10. Turn that ____ upside down.
[ ] phrown
[ ] phrowne
[x] frown
[ ] frowne
If you turn a frown upside down, you are changing it to a smile!