oy as in boy; oi as in oil; sentences

Grade 1 · Day 103 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 114 · p.121 · 30.4 min · teacher edition of the student sheet
12tongue slides 1 → 2voice ON/ɔɪ/oi · back-low vowel
/ɔɪ/ · oi

Our new sound: /ɔɪ/   written oi

Start with round lips and your mouth open, the way you say 'aw'. Then slide your tongue up and forward until you are smiling — /ɔɪ/, as in 'boy' and 'oil'.

Check yourself: Mirror: round lips at the start, smiling lips at the end. If your lips never change, it is not the sound yet.

Watch for: Splitting it into two separate vowels — 'bo-y'. It is one slide, not two syllables.

Read these · 36 words

boy
oil
coin
noise
hoist
coy
boil
join
poise
foist
joy
coil
loin
moist
Roy
foil
void
choice
soy
soil
joint
voice
toy
toil
point
Joyce
broil
spoil
poi
joyful
oily
boyish
noy
annoy
broiling
coins

◆ marks a word that does NOT follow today's pattern — Blumenfeld boxes these on the page. Teach it by heart; do not let the class sound it out and lose faith in the rule.

Read the sentences

Write what you hear

boy
oil
coin
noise
hoist

Say the word, have them repeat it, count the sounds on fingers, THEN write. The count is what stops a child writing the first letter and guessing the rest.