OU words: Download 5 free worksheets with this vowel team

Simplify learning ou words with these fun worksheets to understand the concept of a digraph. This is a pattern of two letters representing one sound in English.

Also, this vowel team represents more than one vowel sound making it impossible to decode ou words. Therefore, ou words are sight words that must be learned, as they cannot be sounded out.

In the word mouse, ‘ou’ is a diphthong just like ‘ow’, but makes the long ‘u’ sound in you, and short ‘u’ sound in famous.

Click here to see ‘ou words’ in full sentences in OU Stories

Since there is so much to learn about ou words, you can use these free worksheets in learning environments for:

• Preschoolers
• Older children in remedial classes
• Adults in reading improvement classes
• Foreign language speakers learning English

Have fun with learning word lists, tracing and filling in the blanks with letters to spell ou words correctly.

Download 5 free worksheets to spell, trace and learn ou words

OU words worksheet – fill in the blanks

 OU words worksheet – about, clout, doubt, shout

OU words worksheet – douse, house, louse, mouse

OU words worksheet – found, pound, round, sound

OU words worksheet: hour, flour, sour, scour

See also:

AI words – bait, nail, rain, said

EA words – head, weak, mean, beat

EE words – deep, feet, been, seed

EI words – heist, rein, vein, deceit

EY words – they, prey, key, alley

IE words – brief, field, ties, fries

OA words – boat, soak, road, toast

OO words – book, root, foot, mood

OU words – about, shout, soup, hour

OW words – cow, how, low, show