oi oy vowels help your child read



Do you think our leopard enjoys sitting
high in its tree?   yes    no   maybe

Rhyming families are an easy way for your child to see how sounds work. First, show your child how rhyming works. Point to and read this list together:

man         fan          tan           plan
can          ran          pan          than

Help your child see that only the starting sound changes. Say: tell me how man is different from can.

Now that your child sees how rhyming works, let's look at oi and oy. Oi / oy are special vowel teams that do not use long vowel or short vowel sounds.  Oi / oy always use the same sound you hear in boy and boil.

Let your child point as you read these words several times, letting him join in when he can:

boy    joy      Roy       enjoy        ahoy         annoy

toy     soy     Troy      cowboy    destroy      employ

Enjoy and cowboy have longer beginning sounds but they still end with the same sound.

Let's try the boil / coil rhyming family (toil means to work: I am toiling when I wash the floor.)

boil           broil          coil         foil          soil        spoil       toil

When oi and oy are together they always make this same sound. Try these words:

royal     loyal     voyage

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