OO OU Worksheet

The vowel teams oo and ou both spell the same long oo sound you hear in moon and soup, which makes them one of the trickiest spelling choices a second grader meets. Once children can hear that sound, the real work is deciding which two letters to write, and that only comes from seeing the two patterns side by side again and again. This oo ou worksheet gives students a focused set of everyday words and asks them to sort each one by the way its vowel sound is spelled, so the pattern becomes something they notice rather than something they guess at.

This 2nd grade vowel teams worksheet opens with a ten-word Word Bank printed in large, easy-to-read type. Students read every word aloud, listen for the shared vowel sound, and then copy each word onto a writing line in either the oo column or the ou column. Roomy handwriting lines mean children have space to form letters carefully instead of cramming, and a labeled picture under each column — an igloo for oo and a bowl of soup for ou — anchors the two spellings to a concrete example before the sorting begins. Use it as morning work, as a phonics-center task, as guided-practice during a small-group lesson, or as homework that a parent can check in a minute with the included key.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• Answer key
• 1 ten-word vowel-team sort with two labeled columns and 10 handwriting lines
• A Word Bank of real second-grade words: broom, coupon, group, moon, pool, spoon, through, tooth, you, youth

Three things make this oo ou worksheet effective. First, sorting is an active decision — a child cannot finish the page without judging every single word, so there is no way to drift through it. Second, writing each word out rather than circling or ticking it builds the spelling into muscle memory, which is what students actually need when they meet these words in their own writing. Third, the two columns sit side by side, so the contrast between the patterns is visible on every glance instead of being explained once and forgotten.

Keep the practice going away from the page. Read a favorite picture book together and have your child call out every oo and ou word they hear, then guess the spelling before checking the page. Write the ten words on index cards and play a two-column sorting race on the kitchen table, or hide the cards around the room for a word hunt. Ask children to use three words from the Word Bank in one silly sentence, or start a classroom anchor chart where students add a new oo or ou word every time they find one in their reading.

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