Help students learn all about diphthongs with this handy diphthong student reference sheet.
Diphthong Learning Made Easy!
Our Diphthong Student Reference Sheet is a valuable tool crafted to make learning and teaching this crucial linguistic concept a breeze. Created by a teacher as a cheat sheet students can have handy during phonics lessons – this Diphthong student reference sheet includes the following diphthongs with examples:
- ow – down, cow, frown
- ou – cloud, round, mouth
- aw – paw, saw, claw
- au – sauce, pause, laundry
- oi – coin, oil, foil
- oy – boy, toy, annoy
- ue – blue, clue, tissue
How to Use this Diphthong Cheat Sheet
This resource can be used in many different ways, and you might like to encourage students to colour in a diphthong section once they’ve learned it. You may also want to use clear contact and stick this to the back of your student’s work booklets as a fantastic reference guide that can be used repeatedly. The options are endless with this versatile resource.
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This resource was created by Lisamarie Del Valle, a Teach Starter collaborator.
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