My youngest daughter is in 1st grade this year. We went over the basics for reading already and she has a good foundation, but she has a few phonic letter combinations that give her trouble. ‘OW’ is one of those letter combinations. I like to practice these problematic sounds as a game so I came up with this matching game.

The ‘OW’ sounds game practices the two sounds for ‘ow’. Students match the words containing the letters ‘ow’ to picture cards with the same sound (flower and bow.) There is also a ‘challenge’ to match words containing these letters to the picture cards. This game can be used individually, in a learning center, as a small group or as a file folder game. Everything is included to make the game self-correcting so it can be used in your literacy center too. A word book is included with this set to review concepts and to practice writing ‘ow’ words. All pages are full color with an easy to read font.

My daughter used the booklet as extra practice. I asked her to say the words as she wrote them and then we talked about which picture the word would match with (the bow or the flower—depending on the sound in the word.) I hope that you will find this game useful for your young reader too.

This game covers the common core standard for Second Grade: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3b which states: Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.

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