OU Stories book: Improve spelling and reading skills

This fun book of OU stories is useful for story time, spelling improvement classes, poetry sessions, improving phonological and phonemic awareness, and reading intervention programmes. Stories are entertaining and suitable for anyone who enjoys rhymes.

Words with OU in them are displayed in full bloom in this exciting and entertaining book of short stories with colourful illustrations for readers to grasp the concept of words with the same rimes and the different sounds letters make with the presence of other letters.

CLICK HERE to Improve Spelling and Reading Skills with OU STORIES book filled with words that include OU.

What is rime

Rime is the vowel and letters that come after the onset in a syllable. Onset is the letter or blend before a vowel in a syllable. It can be one, two or three consonants.

In cat, the onset is c. In drain, the onset is dr. In through, the onset is thr. In a word with 3 syllables like catalogue, the onsets are c, t and l.

In cat, the rime is at. In drain, the rime is ain. In through, the rime is ough. In catalogue, the rimes are at, al and ogue.

What is rhyme

Rhyme is the close similarity in the final sounds of two or more words. In poems, rhyme is commonly used at the end of the lines.

Words that rhyme with cat are fat, hat, sat and mat which all have the same rime – at. However, red, head and said also rhyme but don’t have the same rime – ed, ead and aid.

OU Stories book for improving spelling and reading skills

Children of all ages will see and hear the words “mouse”, “group”, “dough”, “tough” and “thought” in one book and learn that the vowel sounds in all these words do not sound the same even though they look the same.

The OU Stories book comes in both e-book and paperback formats for your pleasure. It is one of a series of fun books that are having a spelling party on the inside.

OU Stories

IMPROVE SPELLING AND READING.

Words with OU in them are displayed in full bloom in this exciting and entertaining book of short stories for readers to grasp the concept of words with the same rimes and the different sounds letters make with the presence of other letters. Children of all ages will see and hear the words “mouse”, “group”, “dough”, “tough” and “thought” in one book and learn that the vowel sounds in all these words do not sound the same even though they look the same.

Kindle US$2.99

Paperback US$7.99

About OU Stories

The author of OU Stories is Joyanne James and publisher is Culturama Publishing Company. It was launched in December 2022 as part of a 10-book series called Improve Spelling and Reading Skills on Amazon. There are also AI Stories, EA Stories, EE Stories, EI Stories, EY Stories, IE Stories, OA Stories, OO Stories and OW Stories that are all having their own fun with words.

OU Stories is educational material that supports articles on phonics found on Study Zone Institute. The website offers students, parents and teachers – instructions, word lists, posters and videos to help improve spelling skills, understand rime and rhyme, sharpen phonological and phonemic awareness, decode faster and read fluently.

OU in the word list

Use the word list below at home or in the classroom. Create posters, flashcards, write poems or use for journaling.

-ou

found, mouse, our, house, proud, bounce, around, about, pound, flour, ground, out, shout, mouth, count, pout, south, doubt, cloud, bound, sour, loud, announce, mountain, louse, doused, lounge

you, soup, wound, group, cougar, coupon, youth, route, routine, bouquet, souvenir, boutique, acoustic

couple, country, courage, encourage, young, limousine