Phoneme /OU/

Phoneme /OU/

The lips are tense and very round.

• [OU] is a diphthong. It begins with [O] and and ends with [U]

• The phoneme [OU] is actually longer and more prolonged than Spanish "ó".

• The frequent spellings patterns for [OU] is the letters "o", "oa", "ow", "oe" and "ou".

Examples          only     /OUnly/

                         both     /bOUth/

                            go     /gOU/

                                 

HINTS

When "o"is in a syllabe ending in silent "e", the letter "o" is pronounced [OU]. Examples: phone, note, home.

The lettters "oa" are usually pronounced [OU]. Examples: coal, boat, toaster.

The letter "o" followed by "ld" is usually pronounced [OU]. Examples: cold, old, soldier.





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Phoneme [OU]

Organize the word

• Olny  →   

• Onace   → 

• Baot  →         

• Kwon  →   

• Sekop   →   

• Sohw  →   

• Hemo  →   

• Sapo  →  

• Towhr  →    

• Soluherd  →  

The order of the words are: only, ocean, boat, know, spoke, show, home, soap, throw, shoulder.