Free printable diphthong — oy phonics worksheets. Four practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, and rapid naming chart.
Grade: 1st-2ndPhase 4: Vowel Teams & AdvancedPattern: OY diphthong (word-final)
boycoyjoytoysoyployahoydecoyemployenjoyannoyroyal
1 Decodable Reading Passage
A short, decodable story embedding diphthong — oy words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.
Kate's Joyful Toy
Skill: Diphthong — OY • Sight Words: the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have, with, you, are, be
Coloring page included in PDF
A boy named Tom sat on the grass. He was glum. Kate ran to him with her big red ball. Tom did not want to play. He just held his new toy, a small cowboy. "What is bad?" asked Kate.
"This cowboy does not bring me joy," Tom said. "He just stands still. A toy must do more."
Kate had a plan. She got a long stick. She poked the cowboy toy up upon a big rock. "Ahoy!" she yelled. "The royal cowboy is on the hill!"
Tom grinned. He made his cowboy jump off the rock to catch the bad men. Kate and the boy played all day. It was a joyful game.
Circle or highlight all the OY diphthong words in the story above. How many did you find?
Cut out the word cards and sort them into the correct columns: Real Words vs Nonsense Words.
Real Words
Nonsense Words
boy
coy
joy
toy
soy
ploy
ahoy
decoy
employ
enjoy
hoyz
boyz
loyz
coyz
soyz
koyz
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3 Phrasing Practice Cards
Practice reading these phrases for fluency. Cut out the cards and read them quickly and smoothly.
the boy on coy
a coy in joy
the joy and toy
a toy with soy
the soy on ploy
a ploy in ahoy
the ahoy and decoy
a decoy with employ
the employ on enjoy
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4 RAN Chart (Rapid Naming)
Read each word in the grid as quickly as you can. Time yourself and try to beat your best time!
Decodable RAN Chart — Diphthong — OY
soy
employ
destroy
voyage
employ
boy
boy
destroy
voyage
boy
destroy
employ
boy
soy
voyage
soy
Target words: boy, soy, employ, voyage, destroy
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5 Word Search
Find and circle the diphthong — oy words hidden in the grid. Words go across, down, and diagonally — a fun way to reinforce diphthong — oy word recognition.
Diphthong — OY Word Search
Y
R
Y
N
D
B
E
A
N
C
C
H
X
Y
T
O
N
B
Q
O
S
T
G
H
H
Y
J
O
C
Y
E
M
P
L
O
Y
O
M
H
F
A
N
R
Z
D
J
Y
D
C
I
P
N
W
O
K
N
D
J
O
Y
L
I
N
E
Y
T
O
Y
U
I
O
A
H
O
Y
A
N
S
H
Y
Y
Q
I
N
Y
G
L
A
O
O
S
S
G
O
D
E
C
O
Y
Y
AHOYANNOYBOYCOYDECOYEMPLOYENJOYJOYPLOYROYALSOYTOY
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📖 Decodable Readers for Diphthong — OY
Next step: once your child can sound out these words, have them read a matching decodable mini-book. Each Diphthong — OY reader is a printable story + coloring page using only sounds they've learned.
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.
