oa and ow

Read and spell boat, coat, snow, and grow.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 27

O and a make a long o sound, like in boat, coat, and goat. Oa usually comes in the middle.
O and w can make the same long o sound at the end: snow, slow, crow.
Middle: oa. End: ow. Just like ai and ay!
Your turn! Spell goat with the tiles.
Your turn! Sort the words: oa or ow?

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

1.F.P.1.b — Identify and produce both long and short vowel sounds for A, E, I, O, U, including final -e and vowel digraphs.
1.F.P.2.a — Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with a variety of spelling patterns (VC, CV, CVC, CVCe, VCC, CCVC, CVCC, CVVC, CCVCC), including high-frequency words.
1.F.P.3.a — Encode regularly spelled one-syllable words with a variety of spelling patterns (VC, CVC, CVCe, VCC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC), including high-frequency words.