Vowel Combination ou and ow

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Vowel Combinationou and ow

• 6 vowel combinations start with o

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Vowel Combinationou and ow
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Vowel Combinationou and ow

• The sound /ou/ has 2 spellings ow and ou. You
  decide which to use by where the sound comes in
  the word.

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ou and ow say /ow/ as in flower

• Use ou if it is in the body of the word.
• Examples ground, mouse, hound, bounce, blouse,
  shout, mouth, pound, scoundrel

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Vowel Combinationou and ow

• If the /ou/ sound comes at the end of the word,
  use ow
• Examples plow, allow, now, brow, cow

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Vowel Combinationou and ow

• Use ow when the sound /ou/ is followed by a
  single l, n, er, or el.
• Examples down, clown, tower, scowl, power,
  town, gown, fowl, flower, growl, brown, shower,
  vowel, trowel, towel
• Learn and memorize these exceptions crowd,
  powder, chowder, foul, coward

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Practical Spelling Words

• flower vowel towel tower
• drowsy coward powder announce
• thousand around counter account
• county pronoun discount surround
• pronounce mouth ground louder