Free printable diphthong — ou phonics worksheets. Five practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, rapid naming chart, and word search.
A free illustrated mini-book for Diphthong — OU, plus the same story as a passage sheet for highlighting.
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The sun was hot, and not one cloud came by to block it. Pip the pig sat in his pen and huffed. The sun had baked his mud spot until it was like stone, and it had cracked. "I am so hot," Pip said. "I want some mud!"
Tess heard him from the pond. "I can help," she said. She dunked her trunk in the pond and filled it up. Then she ran down the hill to the pen as fast as she could. But on the way, most of it dripped out of her trunk. When she got to Pip, she could blast out only a drip or two. They fell on the dust and were gone.
Tess went back again and again. She lost count of her trips. Still, the mud spot did not get wet. Pip let out a sad little sound.
Tess sat down to think. "My trunk is too small," she said. "But I am big, and I can dig!" She started to dig a long ditch from the pond down the hill. But she did not dig out one clump of sand at the bank. It held the pond back. Her huge legs went pound, pound, pound. She pushed the sand into a long mound on each side.
At last, the ditch went all the way to Pip's pen. Tess pulled the last clump of sand out of the bank. Out came a big gush! It ran down the ditch, round the bend, and into the pen. It filled the old cracked spot and made a big new mud hole.
Pip jumped in with a shout, and Tess jumped in too. Mud got into her mouth, and she laughed. "Now this is our mud spot," Pip said with a grin. Tess was very proud.
ou comes in the middle of a word. ow comes at the end, or before n or l.
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The words this story set practices, in the two groups used by the word sort.
out, our, ouch, mouth, south, found, hound, mound, pound, round
zout, vound, jouth, moud, foup, glout
OI, OY, OU and OW words to read, match and write, with pictures. Each PDF has its answer key on page 2.
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4 ready-to-print PDFs for this story's diphthong — ou words. Each one opens as its own file.
Cut-apart word cards to sort: Real Words or Nonsense Words. Answer key on page 2.
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A new decodable story with the same diphthong — ou sounds — each comes with its own set of worksheets.
These free diphthong (ou) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the OU 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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