Diphthongs OU OW Sort Cut and Paste 3 Levels

About this resource

Three skills, one OU/OW job each, three levels of every single one.

How The Three Levels Work

Level 1 — a tinted box showing exactly where the piece goes, and no spare piece to account

for. Both spellings are still on the strip, because choosing between them IS the skill.

Level 2 — the same job, no tint, and one spare piece: an extra copy of a spelling already in

play, so a student who counts the pieces instead of thinking about position gets the page wrong.

Level 3 — no tint, no spare (Skills 1-2) or a new mix of words for a second look (Skill 3);

every level draws from the same eight-word bank, with the specific subset rotated so a student who

sees more than one level still meets different words.

The Three Skills

1. OU or OW? Say the Sound, Choose the Spelling — a picture only, nothing printed; glue the

spelling you hear, using the position rule

2. Finish the Word — the word is printed with its ou/ow spelling cut out of wherever it

actually falls (leading, trailing or in the middle), so reading the rest of the word is part of

the job

3. Sort by Spelling — picture cards into two houses, ou and ow

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A print-and-cut worksheet packet with a scripted plan page in front of each skill. It is not a

fillable form, not a full curriculum, and not a sound-discrimination pack the way this store's

Beginning Sound Sort or Middle Sound Sort packs are — OU and OW genuinely sound identical,

and the "How to Use" page and every plan script say so plainly rather than asking a child to guess

by ear. This pack covers the OU/OW pair only; it does not cover oi/oy or au/aw (see the scope note

above) and does not claim to. Nothing here is a timeline, an eligibility claim or a diagnosis —

every objective is written the way a classroom goal is written.

What Is In The File

• 22 pages, one PDF
• 3 scripted lesson plan pages — a script in quotation marks a substitute could read cold,

three level notes, three "if a student is stuck" tips with the likely cause named, a try-it-today

idea and a data box on every plan

• 9 student worksheets (3 skills x 3 levels)
• 1 answer-key page covering all three skills, recomputed from the same data that draws the

worksheets

• 1 filled example page — an invented student's completed page, so you can see exactly how

the position-rule mechanic works before any student touches one

• 1 progress roll-up page that turns all three skills into one sheet for an IEP meeting or a team

check-in

• 1 family-and-team update page — blanks for what you saw and what's next, plus three ways to

help at home, with no clinical or diagnostic language anywhere on it

• 1 binder cover and 1 page of 5 divider tabs (the three skills, the answer key and the example)

plus a spine label, so this drops straight into a binder, a hanging file or a bin of folders

• 1-page "how to use this packet" guide that teaches the position rule up front
• A name and date line, a big direction line and a cut rule on every worksheet
• Every cut piece sits edge to edge with its neighbor (one straight cut between pieces, never a

gap), at least five pieces on every page, in one or two short rows

• No level word and no teacher note anywhere on a student page: the three dots on the name line are

the only level code, and they are there for you, not for the child

Who This Is For

Self-contained, resource and early-intervention classrooms, and any 1st-2nd grade room moving past

short vowels into vowel-team spelling patterns. It works alongside this store's Beginning Sound

Sort and Middle Sound Sort packs (same shape, an earlier skill) once a student is ready for a

spelling-pattern decision instead of a pure listening one.

From Bright Path Sped, special education resources: teacherspayteachers.com/store/bright-path-sped