This ow grapheme worksheet is a sample from No Nonsense Phonics Skills – a comprehensive step-by-step method of teaching reading, handwriting and spelling.

The worksheet, taken from Pupil Book 6, provides exercises and a ‘mini story’ for the grapheme ‘ow’.

Grapheme worksheet

In many words, the grapheme ‘ow’ is code for the sound /ou/ as in owl. ow is code for /oa/ in some words, such as such as: bow, tow, snow, slow, grow, throw

In this worksheet, children need to finger trace the letter shapes from the dots, then write the capital and lower case letter groups, while saying the sound /ou/.

Next, they need to think about where they can hear the sound /ou/ in these words:

• cow
• branches
• crowns
• frown

The next task is about underlining ow in a list of words, including:

• now
• down
• fowl
• row
• growl
• owlets

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