Oi and Oy Words in Sentences

Say each word and have your child listen for the sliding sound. When two spellings make the same sound, talk about where each one usually sits in a word. Check with the answer key.

Finish six sentences with oi and oy words like soil, coin and enjoy from a word bank. A diphthong is a vowel sound that slides, like the sound in oil and boy. It can be spelled oi or oy. The directions on the page read: Read each sentence. Find the word in the Word Bank that makes sense in the blank. Then, write the word on the line. Use each word once. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd Grade vowels, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with diphthongs. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

The sliding sounds in out and cow, coin and boy, and the sound in August and saw. The set also covers the two sounds of oo, as in moon and book.

Ow can say the sound in cow or the long o in snow. The ou or ow sort asks children to circle the ow words that say long o, which helps them try both sounds when reading a new word (RF.2.3.E).

Oi usually comes in the middle of a word, like coin and soil, and oy at the end, like toy and enjoy. Children trace this rule or read it in a rule box, then use it to finish words like moist and destroy. A few words, like royal and oyster, break it.

Yes. All 19 diphthong sheets have an answer key.