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A Collection of Vowel Digraphs Phonics Worksheets

Vowel Digraph OO, OU, EW, AW, OW Phonics Worksheets and Teaching Resources

This is a collection of free, printable worksheets for teaching ESL students vowel digraph decoding skills.

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Vowel Digraphs Worksheets and Teaching Resources


Unit 2: Digraphs AW, EW, OW (cow), OW (grow), OU, and OO

Vowel digraphs are combination of vowels that combine to make a single vowel sound like the AW in claw, the EW in news, the OW in snow, the OU in cloud, and the OO in book.

I usually teach vowel digraphs unit 2 after teaching long vowel digraphs unit 1 or r-controlled vowels, but it is not essential to follow this order.


Vowel Digraph Spelling Worksheets 2

These spelling sheets contain words with the vowel digraphs. I generally introduce two or three new words every day to highlight or reinforce a particular pattern.

Vowel Digraph Card Games 2

These cards can be used to play memory and fish while at the same time reinforcing vowel digraph patterns. The words are mostly taken from the spelling sheets above.

Vowel Digraph Bingo 2

A bingo game that helps students decode words with the vowel digraphs. There are no pictures in this game as the emphasis is on decoding skills.

More Vowel Digraph Word Searches

12 word searches from the phonics wordsearches section that reinforce the bOOk, cOW, rOW, OU, AW, and EW patterns. They come with two grids, easy and normal, so as not to frustrate younger learners.

OO (as in book)Vowel Digraph Word Searches

OO Word Search Easy
OO Word Search Hard

OU Vowel Digraph Word Searches

OU Word Search Easy
OU Word Search Hard

AW Vowel Digraph Word Searches

AW Word Search Easy
AW Word Search Hard

OW (as in cow) Vowel Digraph Word Searches

OW Word Search Easy
OW Word Search Hard

OW (as in crow) Vowel Digraph Word Searches

OW 2 Word Search Easy
OW 2 Word Search Hard

EW Vowel Digrpah Word Searches

EW Word Search Easy
EW Word Search Hard

Space Aces Vowel Digraph Game

A surprisingly fun game in which kids go on missions to vowel digraph planets and save the Earth by reading words of a given pattern.

Vowel Combination Worksheets

A collection of worksheets that cover vowel digraph patterns such as OA, EE, EA, OU, OW, AI, EW, and OO.

Dragon Words with Consonant Digraphs

Sets of flashcards with consonant digraphs and no pictures for an emphasis on decoding. These cards come from the Dragon Words Section.

Vowel Digraph OW as in cow

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Vowel Digraph OU

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Vowel Digraph EW

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Vowel Digraph AW

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Vowel Digraph OW as in snow

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Vowel Digraph Rhymes

A simple rhyming worksheet that reviews vowel digraph rhyming words from the card game above.

Vowel Digraph Unit Spelling Test Generator

Generate as many spelling tests as you want for review or for actual testing of words in this unit. Refresh to get a new test.

Phonics Monsters Game (Vowel Digraph Version)

This is a great game for reinforcing decoding skills. I also use these cards as my standard set of flashcards when introducing and practicing phonetic patterns.