Diphthong Match-Up

Build phonics awareness and vocabulary with this diphthong picture match worksheet. Students match pictures to words containing diphthongs such as oi, oy, ou, and ow, strengthening the connection between visual cues, pronunciation, and spelling.

Key Learning Objectives
• Skill Focus: Recognizing and identifying common diphthongs in words
• Critical Thinking Benefit: Encourages students to analyze sounds and match them to correct spellings
• Curriculum Tie-In: Supports English Language Arts instruction in phonics, vocabulary, and decoding
• Application Type: Picture-to-word matching that reinforces sound-spelling relationships

Teacher & Parent Features
• Builds decoding confidence through visual support
• Strengthens pronunciation and sound recognition
• Reinforces diphthong patterns in meaningful contexts
• Engages learners through interactive matching
• Ideal for early readers, literacy centers, or small-group instruction

This printable diphthong worksheet helps students improve decoding, vocabulary recognition, and reading fluency by connecting spoken sounds with correct spellings and visual representations.

This worksheet is part of our Vowel Diphthongs Worksheets collection.