Diphthong (oi) Worksheets: Story 2, Jill's Big Hop

Free printable diphthong — oi phonics worksheets. Five practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, rapid naming chart, and word search.

Grade: 1st-2nd Phase 4: Vowel Teams & Advanced Pattern: OI diphthong
oil boil coil foil soil toil coin join point joint voice choice

1 Decodable Reader

A free illustrated mini-book for Diphthong — OI, plus the same story as a passage sheet for highlighting.

Jill's Big Hop mini-book cover
Free illustrated mini-book · Level 4

Jill's Big Hop

A full-color picture book your student reads on their own. Skill: Diphthong — OI. Print, cut and staple.

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Passage sheet: the same story on one page, for highlighting the target words

Jill had five coins in a little bag on her belt. She wanted to buy a new red ball, and Ned had balls for sale at his shop past the hill. "I will hop there fast!" she said.

Jill's hops were long and big. With each hop, the bag on her belt went up and down. Plop! A coin popped out and fell into the soil with a small noise. Jill did not hear it. Plop! Plop! More coins fell out, but she kept on hopping.

At the shop, Ned pointed to a bin of balls. "The red one is five coins," he said. Jill looked in her bag. Not one coin was in it! "My coins must have popped out on the path," she said in a sad voice.

Jill hopped back the way she came. This time she used small hops and looked down at the soil. She saw a coin shine in the moist soil by the pond. Then she found one by a rock, two in the grass, and the last one by a stump. Jill did not want them lost again. Her home was close to the path, so she went in and got some foil. She wrapped the foil around all five coins and pressed it into one snug lump.

Jill raced back to the shop with big, fast hops. The lump did not pop out once. Ned got the red ball out of the bin. Then Jill hopped home and held the ball close, so it could not pop out like her coins.

Circle or highlight all the OI diphthong words in the story above. How many did you find?
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oi and oy

oi comes in the middle of a word. oy comes at the end.

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2 Diphthong — OI Words

The words this story set practices, in the two groups used by the word sort.

Real Words (10)

oil, boil, coil, foil, soil, toil, coin, join, point, joint

Nonsense Words (6)

zoin, voit, joib, poid, goil, floin

Phrases to read
boil the oil · a coin in the soil · join the team · a soft voice · point to the foil · avoid the noise · the right choice · it will spoil · moist and hot
RAN chart words
oil, soil, point, noise, spoil
Sight words
the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have, with, you, are, be

3 OI, OY, OU and OW Picture Worksheets

OI, OY, OU and OW words to read, match and write, with pictures. Each PDF has its answer key on page 2.

Find the Word: a oi, oy, ou and ow picture worksheet

Find the Word

Look at each picture and circle the right word out of three.

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Circle the Picture: a oi, oy, ou and ow picture worksheet

Circle the Picture

Read a word, then circle its picture out of three.

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Which Sentence?: a oi, oy, ou and ow picture worksheet

Which Sentence?

Look at a picture and pick the sentence that matches it.

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Read and Fill In: a oi, oy, ou and ow picture worksheet

Read and Fill In

Read a short story, then fill in the missing words.

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Sound Boxes: a oi, oy, ou and ow picture worksheet

Sound Boxes

Say each picture and write its sounds in the boxes.

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Read and Match: a oi, oy, ou and ow picture worksheet

Read and Match

Read each word, then draw a line to its picture.

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4 Story Worksheets

4 ready-to-print PDFs for this story's diphthong — oi words. Each one opens as its own file.

Diphthong — OI word sort printable preview

Word Sort

Cut-apart word cards to sort: Real Words or Nonsense Words. Answer key on page 2.

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Diphthong — OI phrasing cards printable preview

Phrasing Cards

Short phrases to cut out and read smoothly, for fluency.

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Diphthong — OI word search printable preview

Word Search

Find 12 diphthong — oi words in the grid. Answer key on page 2.

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Diphthong — OI ran chart printable preview

RAN Chart

A grid of five words to read fast, with room to record three timed tries.

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📖 More Diphthong — OI Stories

A new decodable story with the same diphthong — oi sounds — each comes with its own set of worksheets.

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Free Printable Diphthong (oi) Worksheets

These free diphthong (oi) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the OI diphthong. Activities include a decodable passage embedding target words in a fun story, a word sort activity to distinguish real and nonsense words, phrasing practice cards for fluency building, and a rapid naming (RAN) chart for automaticity. Each worksheet prints cleanly on standard US Letter paper.

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