54. Vowel Teams with w: ow, aw, ew

New Concept Words and Sentences: ow /ō/ & /ou/

1. The minnows swam in the shallow creek avoiding the fishing lines of the town people.
2. They’ll not allow you to park downtown at this time of day.
3. How now brown cow!
4. The slow crow will fly below the hollow stump to pick up the marshmallow where it had been thrown down.

New Concept Words and Sentences: aw /ŏ/

1. The show was so slow they yawned and yawned.
2. She was ashamed of the tawdry awning that hung over her lawyer’s office entrance.
3. The Mohawk is a nation of huge pride.

New Concept Words and Sentences: ew /ū/ & /oo/

1. The wild crew of the sailing vessel had thrown all the gear over the deck and it was strewn everywhere.
2. Andrew was a shrewd lawyer and so was in demand by all the bad thugs in town.
3. The Dewdrop Inn had the best coleslaw and baked brown beans in the entire downtown core.

Review Words

What Says?

Spelling and Sentence Dictation

Review

Vowel Teams with ‘w’.

ow – snow – /ō/

ow – plow – /ou/

aw – paw – /ŏ/

ew – few new – /ū/

ew – chews /oo/

Practice

1. What type of syllable? Place a checkmark in the correct column.
   

   Syllable	Open	Closed	VCe	R-Controlled	Vowel Team	Cle
   jowl
   dy
   see
   saw
   cur
   few
   de
   void
   chub
   by

2. Add the suffix for each of these words.
   

   slam+ing	endear+ment	pickle+ing	force ful+ly	trump+ed
   drip+y	encase+ed	bereave+ment	retail+er	construct+tion