Free printable vowel teams & advanced review phonics worksheets. Four practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, and rapid naming chart.
Grade: 1st-2ndPhase 4: Vowel Teams & AdvancedPattern: Mixed Phase 4 review (vowel teams + r-controlled + diphthongs)
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1 Decodable Reading Passage
A short, decodable story embedding vowel teams & advanced review words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.
Jane's Rainy Day Beach Trip
Skill: Vowel Teams & Advanced Review • Sight Words: the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have, with, you, are, be
Coloring page included in PDF
Jane wanted to go to the beach. She put on her cape. But when she looked out, she saw rain. Lots of rain! She could not take the car to the fun beach. "Oh no," Jane said. "I could not go out to play." She felt sad for a short time. Then Jane had a plan. She would make a beach right here in the house! She got a big box of sand. Jane made a high wall and a grand sand home. She put her little boat in the sand. "This is a good beach," she whispered.
Circle or highlight all the vowel team 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
rain
snow
feet
beach
boat
high
car
her
bird
for
laix
naix
faix
baix
jaix
taix
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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 rain on snow
a snow in feet
the feet and beach
a beach with boat
the boat on high
a high in car
the car and her
a her with bird
the bird on for
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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 — Vowel Teams & Advanced Review
bird
boy
boat
bird
bird
boy
boat
boy
boat
paint
rain
rain
paint
rain
paint
rain
Target words: rain, boat, bird, boy, paint
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5 Word Search
Find and circle the vowel teams & advanced review words hidden in the grid. Words go across, down, and diagonally — a fun way to reinforce vowel teams & advanced review word recognition.
Vowel Teams & Advanced Review Word Search
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📖 Decodable Readers for Vowel Teams & Advanced Review
Next step: once your child can sound out these words, have them read a matching decodable mini-book. Each Vowel Teams & Advanced Review reader is a printable story + coloring page using only sounds they've learned.
Free Printable Vowel Teams & Advanced Review Worksheets
These free vowel teams & advanced review worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the Mixed Phase 4 review (vowel teams + r-controlled + diphthongs). 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.
