ou and ow

Why does a coyote like to howl at the moon?

Ou and ow have several sounds; let's look at the ouch sound, as in out and cow.Try this ou ow rhyming word family with your child:

bout      doubt     out      scout    spout      tout

about    gout       pout    shout    sprout    trout

clout      grout      rout     snout    stout 

After reading this list several times, play the game: Can you point to trout and tell me a sentence with trout? And so on, through the words.

Gout is an illness affecting the leg and foot muscles. Grout is the paste seen between the tiles on a tiled wall.

Clout is power and influence: movie stars have a lot of clout. Rout is a battle in which one side trounces the other side. Tout means to praise someone or something: my mother was touting my drawing. 

Do the same with these ou ow rhyming families:

growl         howl     yowl       bowel   foul //    cow    brow    now     pow

prowl         jowl      towel      vowel          //    bow    how     vow     wow

A person's jaw has two jowls: the old man had strong jowls. Bowels are a person's stomach area. Vowels are a special group in our ABCs: a, e, i, o, u, y.

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