Free printable vowel team — ow (long o) phonics worksheets. Four practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, and rapid naming chart.
Grade: 1st-2ndPhase 4: Vowel Teams & AdvancedPattern: OW vowel team — long O sound (as in "snow", not "cow")
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1 Decodable Reading Passage
A short, decodable story embedding vowel team — ow (long o) words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.
Pip's Snow Day
Skill: Vowel Team — OW (long O) • Sight Words: the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have, with, you, are, be
Coloring page included in PDF
Pip the pig woke up and saw the snow. He ran out to play. The whole hill was white. A black crow sat on a tall pole at the top. “I will go up there!” said Pip. The trip up the hill was slow in the thick snow. A cold gust did blow, but Pip did not stop. At last, he got to the top. “I can see my home down below!” he yelled. The crow looked at Pip. Pip could see the whole place from the pole. “This is a good spot,” Pip thought. He was glad he made the long trip.
Circle or highlight all the OW 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
bow
low
mow
row
sow
tow
slow
snow
grow
flow
howx
wowx
cowx
lowx
powx
jowx
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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 bow on low
a low in mow
the mow and row
a row with sow
the sow on tow
a tow in slow
the slow and snow
a snow with grow
the grow on flow
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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 Team — OW (long O)
grow
crow
bow
sow
grow
elbow
sow
grow
sow
bow
crow
bow
bow
crow
elbow
elbow
Target words: bow, sow, grow, crow, elbow
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5 Word Search
Find and circle the vowel team — ow (long o) words hidden in the grid. Words go across, down, and diagonally — a fun way to reinforce vowel team — ow (long o) word recognition.
Vowel Team — OW (long O) Word Search
E
F
A
Y
K
L
I
P
P
O
S
M
L
U
C
W
V
O
W
E
I
N
G
O
X
O
A
Y
A
O
L
U
O
I
W
G
B
L
O
W
P
O
I
W
G
Z
L
Y
U
E
G
H
W
V
R
E
N
O
H
M
R
L
W
H
O
S
M
E
W
O
P
O
Y
T
W
L
C
S
O
W
N
P
W
O
Z
O
O
N
Y
Z
O
A
G
W
W
W
Y
B
O
W
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📖 Decodable Readers for Vowel Team — OW (long O)
Next step: once your child can sound out these words, have them read a matching decodable mini-book. Each Vowel Team — OW (long O) reader is a printable story + coloring page using only sounds they've learned.
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.
