Diphthong Brainstorm Templates & Assessments

Are you teaching the diphthong sounds (oi/oy and ow/ou), and looking for some open-ended assessment and/or diphthong worksheets to consolidate the different diphthong spellings? These brainstorm templates can be used as a record of student learning or class brainstorms, or are a fantastic open-ended assessment tool to assess what students have learnt at the end of a target phoneme focus.

Choose from a wide variety of activity options!

For each long vowel sound there are a variety of pages that include: 

• 2 x differentiated worksheets- students break up the diphthong words into individual sounds, then draw the word or put it into a sentence. At the bottom of the worksheet, they write how many ways they know to represent that phoneme.
• Brainstorm words with each of the main spellings for the diphthong sounds
• List words with each of the main spellings for the diphthong sounds (includes an 'other' column where students can demonstrate their knowledge of less common spellings.
• Fun brainstorm pages with pictures related to each of the diphthong sounds/spellings

Differentiate your assessment!

The graphic organisers allow you to differentiate your assessing:

• Students requiring support may only fill out some of the columns or provide a couple of examples for each word.
• More capable students can demonstrate the extent of their knowledge by writing as many words as they can think of (rather than capping them by only testing them on a limited number of words) and/or showing extension representations.
• To further extend the assessment, block out the graphemes and get the students to fill that part in themselves.

Diphthongs included:

• Oy/oi words
• Ow/ou words