Year 1Vowel teams
oe words
The letters o and e work together to make the long /oa/ sound.
oe/ō/ as in shoebox
Words with oe
Tap a word to see its sounds and hear it.
oe in the middle
oe at the end
Read oe in a sentence.
Every sentence is checked against the sound.
- 1The doe goes home.
- 2He goes up on tiptoe.
- 3Mum goes to get tomatoes.
- 4I dug potatoes with a hoe.
How to teach oe
- Introduce the vowel digraph. Explain that a vowel digraph is two vowels that work together to make one sound.
- Model saying the target phoneme three times.
- Students repeat.
- Check articulation and correct mouth placement.
- Identify the phoneme in the example words.
- Explain the spelling generalisation: The vowel digraph oe is a less common spelling of the long /oa/ phoneme. It is often used at the end of short words (e.g. toe, hoe, foe, doe). We more commonly use ow to spell the long /oa/ phoneme at the end of words (e.g. snow, grow, throw).
Decodable stories with oe.
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Make a whole oe lesson.
Slides, words and sentences, matched to the sounds your class has learned.