Diphthong (oy) Worksheets: Story 2, June's Pine Tune

Free printable diphthong — oy 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: OY diphthong (word-final)
boy coy joy toy soy ploy ahoy decoy employ enjoy annoy royal

1 Decodable Reader

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

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Free illustrated mini-book · Level 4

June's Pine Tune

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

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

June sat at the top of a tall pine. She held her pipe up to her lips and played a joyful tune. It was her best one, and she played it every day. But when she stopped, the same tune came back to her from the pines.

"Ahoy!" June yelled. "Who is there?" No one said a thing. She played again, and again the tune came back, note by note. This started to annoy her. She went from pine to pine to find who it was. She looked up, down, and all around, but she could not see who was playing.

Then June had a plan. "I will play a tune so long and fast that no one can play it back," she said. She puffed and played a long tune with lots of quick notes. It went up and down and up again. Then she stopped and sat still. The tune came back, but it was a mess. At the end, it went HONK!

June looked down. On the pine just under her sat Zed, holding a little toy pipe. "Oh boy," said Zed. "It was me. I liked your tune so much that I wanted to play it too."

June grinned. She was not mad now. "If you enjoy my tune, I will show you how to play it," she said. She showed him each note until he got it right. Now June plays a tune from her pine, and Zed plays it back from his. Together, they fill the pines with joy.

Circle or highlight all the OY 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 — OY Words

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

Real Words (10)

boy, coy, joy, toy, soy, ploy, ahoy, decoy, employ, enjoy

Nonsense Words (6)

zoy, voy, moy, noy, floy, droy

Phrases to read
a boy and a toy · the cowboy is loyal · enjoy the voyage · a royal oyster · joy and noise · it can annoy · destroy the decoy · ahoy, ship · a joyful day
RAN chart words
boy, soy, employ, voyage, destroy
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 — oy words. Each one opens as its own file.

Diphthong — OY 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 — OY phrasing cards printable preview

Phrasing Cards

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

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Diphthong — OY word search printable preview

Word Search

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

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Diphthong — OY 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 — OY Stories

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

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Free Printable Diphthong (oy) Worksheets

These free diphthong (oy) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the OY diphthong (word-final). 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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