Vowel Teams Practice

2nd Grade ELAPhonics and Fluency3 pages

About this worksheet

The two sounds of ow get a page of their own here. 2nd grade students sort eight words (clown, show, town, grow, owl, crow, plow, blow) into two columns, Sounds like COW and Sounds like SNOW. Then they write ow into four picture sentences, such as "The funny cl_____n made us laugh.", and read each one aloud to hear which sound it makes. Because one spelling stands for two sounds, the page fits Common Core RF.2.3b and RF.2.3e. The answer key has the finished sort and all four words.

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Curriculum objectives covered

RF.2.3b

โ€œKnow spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.โ€

Both parts practice the vowel team ow, in the eight sorted words and the four sentence blanks.

RF.2.3e

โ€œIdentify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.โ€

The sort makes students decide which of the two sounds ow spells in each word, such as crow against clown.

What's inside this worksheet

Sort the Words

Eight words in a word bank to write under COW or SNOW. The key splits them evenly: clown, town, owl and plow against show, grow, crow and blow.

Write the Words

Four sentences with pictures of wind, an owl, a seed and a clown. Students fill in ow to make blow, owl, grow and clown, then read the sentence out loud.

Answer key

The completed COW and SNOW table and the four missing words.

How teachers use it

Anchor words

Write cow and snow at the top of the board. Students say each bank word, then say cow and snow after it and listen for the match. Slow down on crow and plow.

Say it aloud

Part 2 only works if students hear the word. Have partners read their four sentences to each other after they fill the blanks.

Grow the sort

Early finishers add their own ow words to each column, such as brown and slow, and test a partner on them.

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