Free printable vowel team — ow (long o) phonics worksheets. Five practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, rapid naming chart, and word search.
A free illustrated mini-book for Vowel Team — OW (long O), plus the same story as a passage sheet for highlighting.
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Shelly sat in a little red ship on the lake. Her yellow vest was snug. Ben stood on the dock on the far side. "Row over to me!" he yelled. "Then I will show you the frog pond!"
Shelly gave a big tug. She pulled fast with one hand and slow with the other. The ship did not go to Ben. It spun round and round! She tried once more and pulled one hand as fast as she could. The ship spun again. A black crow sat on a post and looked at her. Shelly felt her face get red.
"Let me think," she said. She sat still, and the ship rocked on the lake. One hand had pulled fast, and the other had pulled slow. "That is why I spin!" she said. "The fast side pushes the ship around."
This time she bent her elbows and pulled both hands back at the same slow pace. "Row, row," she said with each stroke. "Row, row." The ship did not spin. It slid over the lake as small waves flowed past. Fish swam below her. Ben's dock grew big and then huge.
At last the ship bumped the dock. Ben grabbed the rope. "You did it!" said Ben. "Now follow me to the frog pond." Shelly grinned and hopped out. "Slow and together," she said. "That is the trick!"
oa comes in the middle of a word. ow and oe come at the end.
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The words this story set practices, in the two groups used by the word sort.
bow, low, mow, row, sow, tow, slow, snow, grow, flow
zow, jow, frow, smow, drow, clow
OA 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 vowel team — ow (long o) 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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A new decodable story with the same vowel team — ow (long o) sounds — each comes with its own set of worksheets.
These free long o (ow) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the OW vowel team — long O sound (as in "snow", not "cow"). 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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