2nd Grade Sliding Vowels Worksheets
37 printable 2nd Grade phonics worksheets on Sliding Vowels. Every sheet has an answer key — 37 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: ou, ow-diph; clown to trail; oi and oy; soil to food; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 3 to 35 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Grade 2. Every grade is on one page: Long Vowel Worksheets: Magic E and Vowel Teams.
What is in this set: Find And Color (6), Flashcards (6), Roll And Read (6), Sort And Write (6), Word Hunt (6), Word Chain (5) 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 37 worksheets in this set
- Sort And Write 1: ou, ow-diph Free PDF
- Word Chain 1: clown to trail Free PDF
- Word Hunt 1: ou, ow-diph Free PDF
- Roll And Read 1: ou, ow-diph
- Find And Color 1: ou, ow-diph
- Flashcards 1: ou, ow-diph
- Sort And Write 2: oi and oy
- Word Chain 2: soil to food
- Fluency 1: Roy was a boy with lots of joy.
- Fluency 2: The old man was so glad.
- Word Hunt 2: oi and oy
- Roll And Read 2: oi, oy
- Flashcards 2: oi, oy
- Word Hunt 3: Sliding Vowels
- Find And Color 2: Sliding Vowels
- Roll And Read 3: Sliding Vowels
- Find And Color 3: Sliding Vowels
- Roll And Read 4: Sliding Vowels
- Flashcards 3: Sliding Vowels
- Sort And Write 3: Sliding Vowels
- Sort And Write 4: Sliding Vowels
- Flashcards 4: Sliding Vowels
- Word Chain 3: round to best
- Find And Color 4: Sliding Vowels
- Word Hunt 4: Sliding Vowels
- Roll And Read 5: Sliding Vowels
- Word Chain 4: patch to join
- Find And Color 5: Sliding Vowels
- Sort And Write 5: Sliding Vowels
- Sort And Write 6: Sliding Vowels
- Flashcards 5: Sliding Vowels
- Word Hunt 5: Sliding Vowels
- Flashcards 6: Sliding Vowels
- Find And Color 6: Sliding Vowels
- Word Chain 5: mall to joy
- Word Hunt 6: Sliding Vowels
- Roll And Read 6: Sliding Vowels
Teaching Sliding Vowels
What it is
Sliding vowels are the gliding sounds spelled oi, oy, ou, and ow: soil, joy, cloud, town. The mouth keeps moving while the vowel is said, which is why they sound like neither a short nor a long vowel.
When a child is ready
Teach them after short vowels, magic e, and the long vowel teams are read without stopping to sound them out.
If they struggle
Sort the words into an oi/oy pile and an ou/ow pile before reading any of them, and point out that oi and ou sit inside a word while oy and ow usually end it (coin and boy, cloud and town). When an ow word makes no sense, have the child try the other ow: cow first, then snow.
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