2nd Grade The AW & AU Sounds Worksheets
25 printable 2nd Grade phonics worksheets on The AW & AU Sounds. Every sheet has an answer key — 25 in all. 7 activity types: Find And Color, Flashcards, Fluency, Roll And Read. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: au and aw; raw to jaw; At dawn, the sky turns pink and gold; Next, Fawn saw a small fawn on the grass; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 5 to 35 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 2.
What is in this set: Sort And Write (5), Word Hunt (5), Flashcards (4), Find And Color (3), Roll And Read (3), Word Chain (3) and Fluency (2).
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Grade 2, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. Preview a reading week to see how its lessons run. See every program →
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Includes 7 activity types: Find And Color, Flashcards, Fluency, Roll And Read, Sort And Write, Word Chain, Word Hunt.
All 25 worksheets in this set
- Sort And Write 1: au and aw Free PDF
- Word Chain 1: raw to jaw Free PDF
- Fluency 1: At dawn, the sky turns pink and gold. Free PDF
- Fluency 2: Next, Fawn saw a small fawn on the grass.
- Word Hunt 1: au and aw
- Roll And Read 1: au, aw
- Find And Color 1: au, aw
- Flashcards 1: au, aw
- Find And Color 2: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Sort And Write 2: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Sort And Write 3: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Word Chain 2: yawn to mad
- Word Hunt 2: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Word Hunt 3: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Roll And Read 2: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Find And Color 3: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Flashcards 2: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Flashcards 3: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Sort And Write 4: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Word Chain 3: hook to white
- Sort And Write 5: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Word Hunt 4: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Roll And Read 3: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Word Hunt 5: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
- Flashcards 4: The /aw/ Sound - aw and au
Teaching The AW & AU Sounds
What it is
The teams aw and au spell the same /aw/ sound: saw, jaw, lawn, draw and haul, fault, autumn, caught. They are two spellings of one sound, not two different sounds.
When a child is ready
Teach them after short vowels and the long vowel teams, since /aw/ is a new sound rather than one the child already owns.
If they struggle
Position handles most of the spelling: aw comes at the end of a word or before n and l (saw, draw, lawn, crawl), and au sits inside (haul, fault, autumn, launch). Read one spelling for a few days, then the other, then mix them and have the child say which spelling a word needs before writing it.
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