Irregular Vowel Team Definitions:
VV stands for Vowel, Vowel, which is the Vowel Team syllable.
Digraph: One sound made represented with 2 or more letters. Can be a consonant digraph like sh in she, a vowel digraph like the ui in fruit, or a combination like the igh in light.
Diphthong: A gliding (or changing) sound formed by two or more letters in a syllable. Can be vowels like oi in boil, or a combination of vowels and consonants like augh in daughter.

We recommend you watch videos in order, and practice each sound after each video.

Written Stories

• Written Stories: VV Diphthong/Digraph stories
• VV ow says 2 sounds song to sing or chant

• VV Diphthong/Digraph Poster
• VV Diphthong/Digraph Poster with words color
• VV Diphthong/Digraph Poster with words B&W
• VV Diphthong/Digraph Cover Sheet color
• VV Diphthong/Digraph Cover Sheet B&W

For the formatting of PowerPoints to be correct, click FILE, then DOWNLOAD, and download in Microsoft PowerPoint.

• PowerPoint: All Diphthong/Digraph stories
• PowerPoint: All Syllable Types with Practice (Directions in notes section on each slide) Use only slides that are relevant to where you are in the steps.

TEACH ALONG THE WAY ●●●

Teach and add the irregular vowel teams (oo, oo, oi, oy, au, augh, aw, ui, ue, ew, ou, ow) from the Big Sounds Pack to daily practice as they are learned.

TIP: Teach and practice each sound group together. For example teach the au, augh and aw together as all ways to spell the /aw/ sound.   (The 2 sounds for oo can be taught together.)  Teach the sounds in the order we present them in, or teach each sound as it comes up in your students reading.  If your student asks about the oo in book, teach and practice the two sounds for oo right then when it is relevant to the student.

Map Sounds to Letters

Map the sounds in the word to the letter(s) representing the sounds, even if it is not a letter combination that has been taught yet. Only an unusual sound/letter combination needs to be remembered “by heart.” Mapping the sounds to the letters is how we remember what words look like. See example below:

Be sure to reinforce what you know and are learning about words, for example:
Schwa Sound: Any vowel might say /ŭ/. Point out that this happens in many common words like: the, of, was, some, from…

KEY:
K-1 Beginning
1-2 Growing
Intervention/Challenge

Bundle: Multiple types of materials (games, activities, stories…) bundled together.
Pack: Multiple pieces of the same type of material, for example a pack of books.

Directions for everything else:

More on the Directions Page

• Highlighting Lists
• Working with Flashcards
• Flashing Words with flashcards
• Games with Picture Cards
• Games with Words/Phrases on Game Board
• Game I Have, Who Has
• Game Bang!
• Game Bingo
• Spelling help found on the Spelling Page in the Teach Along The Way section
• Small Book Assembly 
• Small Book 4 pager Assembly
• Syllable Sort Directions
  • Syllable Sort Headings
  • Strategy for Splitting Syllables

Sample Bundle

Irregular Vowel Team Bundles

Irregular Vowel Team VV Bundle oo (boot) Words words, phrases, pyramids, games, stories
Irregular Vowel Team VV Bundle oo (foot) Words words, phrases, pyramids, games, stories
Irregular Vowel Team VV Bundle oi, oy Words words, phrases, pyramids, games, stories
Irregular Vowel Team VV Bundle au, aw Words words, phrases, pyramids, games, stories
Irregular Vowel Team VV Bundle ew Words words, phrases, pyramids, games, stories
Irregular Vowel Team VV Bundle ue, ui Words words, phrases, pyramids, games, stories
Irregular Vowel Team VV Bundle ou Words words, phrases, pyramids, games, stories
Irregular Vowel Team VV Bundle ow Words words, phrases, pyramids, games, stories

Irregular Vowel Team Pack

Irregular Vowel Team VV Pack Full Page Story with List ALL

See Highlighting Word Lists.

Highlighting the target sound within each word helps students train their brains to automatically identify these unique letter combinations.  Using the specific color that is represented in our posters and stories helps remember the sound.  Asking students to do the actions with the sounds helps memory also.

Irregular Vowel Team VV oo, oo word list by type School Book
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo,oo phrases list A White Tooth
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo oo mixed words and phrases
Irregular Vowel Team VV ew ue ui word list Fruit
Irregular Vowel Team VV ew ue ui phrase lists by type
Irregular Vowel Team VV ew ue ui phrase list He Grew Fruit
Irregular Vowel Team VV oi oy word list and phrases
Irregular Vowel Team VV oi, oy phrase stories Flag Pix
Irregular Vowel Team VV ou ow words and phrases by type The Pinch Sounds
Irregular Vowel Team VV ou ow phrases list Owl Pix
Irregular Vowel Team VV au, aw, augh word list Paw Prints
Irregular Vowel Team VV au augh aw words by type and phrases
Irregular Vowel Team VV au, aw, augh phrases Astronaut
* Irregular Vowel Team VV ui,ue,ew au,aw,augh words with prefix.suffix endings (Use a different color highlighter to highlight the prefixes and suffixes)
Irregular Vowel Team VV mixed list to highlight
Irregular Vowel Team VV mixed word and sentences Flowers
Irregular Vowel Team VV mixed word list and sentences Coins
Irregular Vowel Team VV mixed advanced Highlight the Diphthong in the correct color
Review: Changing vowel drills 1-4 combined cvc cve vv vr

VV Regular and irregular sound flashcards from Big Sounds Pack
Irregular Vowel Team VV flashcards oo oo
Irregular Vowel Team VV flashcards oo ui ue ew
Irregular Vowel Team VV flashcards oi oy
Irregular Vowel Team VV flashcards au augh aw
Irregular Vowel Team VV flashcards ou ow

Pyramids are great for automaticity with words, feeling successful and fluency.

Irregular Vowel Team VV oo oo fluency pyramid look cool wool hoodie hook
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo oo fluency pyramid stood stool took cookies too
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo oo fluency pyramid took good look crook wood
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo oo fluency pyramid wood spoon cook good food
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo oo fluency pyramid ALL 4 oo oo pyramids on one sheet
Irregular Vowel Team VV ue ew fluency pyramid jewel crew threw blew true
Irregular Vowel Team VV ue ew fluency pyramid Sue argue knew drew true blue
Irregular Vowel Team VV ui ue ew fluency pyramid cruise new knew blue hue suit

Game Directions

Irregular Vowel Team VV oo word game Loose Boots
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo word game Look What the Dogs Took
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo, oo mixed word game Football Fun
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo phrase game A Foot in the Brook
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo phrases game The Good Rooster
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo comparing words game Can You See the Difference?
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo sentences dice game Silly OO’s
Irregular Vowel Team VV ew, ue, ui word game Stuck on You, Glue
Irregular Vowel Team VV ew, ue, ui phrases Game Looking For Clues
Irregular Vowel Team VV ew, ue, ui game Bingo
Irregular Vowel Team VV oi, oy word game Enjoy the Coins
Irregular Vowel Team VV oi, oy phrases game Destroy the Poision
Irregular Vowel Team VV au aw word game (older)
Irregular Vowel Team VV aw augh words game I Saw a Fawn Yawn
Irregular Vowel Team VV ou ow word game How Now Brown Cow
Irregular Vowel Team VV ou ow word game Flower Power
Irregular Vowel Team VV ou, ow word game Lightning Bug Power

Practice with words from the lists, games etc., or use the lists below.
* Having learners spell with word chains where the coach says “change one sound in (chop) to spell (chip), now change one sound in (chip) to spell (sip)” is a powerful way to draw student’s attention to individual sounds in the words!

Spelling Review 2: -cle, Diphthongs/Digraphs, multiple syllable words

Syllable Sort Directions
Syllable Sort Headings
Breaking up words strategy page

Big Words with all syllable types to break up, read and sort

Small Book: 8 page assembly directions, 4 page folding directions, OR use horizontal format for reading on screen in distance learning.

Irregular Vowel Team VV oo 4 page The Loose Tooth horizontal and foldable formats
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo oo small book The Hot Air Balloon Ride horizontal and foldable formats
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo oo small book The Goose, Moose and Rooster Escape horizontal and foldable formats

Irregular Vowel Team VV oo ue small book Hodan horizontal and foldable formats
Irregular Vowel Team VV ew ue ui small book Don’t Ever Eat Sue’s Stew foldable formats

Irregular Vowel Team VV oi oy small book Roy’s Toy horizontal and foldable formats

Irregular Vowel Team VV aw au augh small book The Sometimes Naughty Daughter horizontal and foldable formats
Irregular Vowel Team VV aw au augh 4 page At Dawn horizontal and foldable formats

Irregular Vowel Team VV ou ow 4 page My Brother The Grouch horizontal and foldable formats
Irregular Vowel Team VV ou ow small book My House horizontal and foldable formats
Irregular Vowel Team VV ou ow small book Bad Dog horizontal and foldable formats

See Highlighting Word Lists

Irregular Vowel Team VV Pack Full Page Story with List ALL

Irregular Vowel Team VV au augh aw full page story with list The Author’s Daughter
Irregular Vowel Team VV aw augh full page story with list Fishing
Irregular Vowel Team VV ew full page story with list Mew
Irregular Vowel Team VV oi oy full page story with list Troy’s Oyster
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo full page story with list Fireworks
Irregular Vowel Team VV oo full page story with list Boots
Irregular Vowel Team VV ou ow full page story with list Brown Cow
Irregular Vowel Team VV ou ow full page story with list Downtown
Irregular Vowel Team VV ue ui ew full page story with list Cruise the Avenue