Long O (oa) Worksheets: Story 2, Fran's Pet Goat

Free printable vowel team — oa 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: OA vowel team (long O sound)
oat boat coat goat moat oak soak foam roam road toad load

1 Decodable Reader

A free illustrated mini-book for Vowel Team — OA, plus the same story as a passage sheet for highlighting.

Fran's Pet Goat mini-book cover
Free illustrated mini-book · Level 4

Fran's Pet Goat

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

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

Fran had a pet goat. He was a black and white goat. He wanted to roam all around the land. One day, the gate was open. The goat ran away. He went down the road. He hid by a big, old oak.

Fran had to get her goat back. She put on her brown coat and went down the road. The goat was in a big ditch. He was in the thick, black mud! "Oh no," Fran said. "You will have a long soak in the tub."

The goat did not want to come out. He was fond of the mud. Fran had a good plan. She went back and got a big load of oats. "Come get these oats," she said. The goat was fond of oats. He ran up the ditch. Fran got him.

Fran led the goat home. She did fill a big tub. She did use a lot of green soap. Soon, the tub was full of thick foam. She did scrub his coat until it was clean. "Now we can have a snack," Fran said. The goat had more oats. Then she cut a loaf and made a hot slice of toast.

Circle or highlight all the OA vowel team words in the story above. How many did you find?
Long o: oa, ow and oe poster
Free color poster

Long o: oa, ow and oe

oa comes in the middle of a word. ow and oe come at the end.

Print it full size for the wall, or smaller for a phonics notebook.

2 Vowel Team — OA Words

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

Real Words (10)

oat, boat, coat, goat, moat, oak, soak, foam, roam, road

Nonsense Words (6)

zoat, voam, joad, poak, foap, stoab

Phrases to read
a goat in a boat · toast and oats · a toad on the road · soap and foam · soak the coat · load the coal · roast the loaf · a foal at the oak · roam to the moat
RAN chart words
oat, moat, roam, soap, loaf
Sight words
the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have, with, you, are, be

3 OA and OW Picture Worksheets

OA and OW words to read, match and write, with pictures. Each PDF has its answer key on page 2.

Find the Word: a oa 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 oa and ow picture worksheet

Circle the Picture

Read a word, then circle its picture out of three.

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Which Sentence?: a oa 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 oa 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 oa and ow picture worksheet

Sound Boxes

Say each picture and write its sounds in the boxes.

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Read and Match: a oa 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 vowel team — oa words. Each one opens as its own file.

Vowel Team — OA 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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Vowel Team — OA phrasing cards printable preview

Phrasing Cards

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

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Vowel Team — OA word search printable preview

Word Search

Find 12 vowel team — oa words in the grid. Answer key on page 2.

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Vowel Team — OA 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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Free Printable Long O (oa) Worksheets

These free long o (oa) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the OA vowel team (long O sound). 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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