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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Scout's hound was not in the house. Where did he go? Scout went out to look. She ran round the big lot. She put her hands to her mouth. "Where are you?" she gave a big shout. Then Scout heard a sound from the back of the lot. She ran to a little mound of mud. There she found him! Her hound sat on top of the mound. He looked down at a fresh green sprout. He looked so proud. "There you are!" Scout said with a grin. She was glad she found him.
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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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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