Diphthong Vowel Teams Word Chains & Word Ladders

Are your students struggling with reading and spelling diphthong vowel teams? These diphthong word chains and ladders are perfect for improving students' fluency with common vowel team diphthongs. With these no-prep lists and worksheets, just print and use with your students during whole or small group lessons.

Why use word chains and ladders?

Word chains and ladders help students focus on individual phonemes and the graphemes that represent each phoneme, allowing for targeted practice in a specific skill. Students must segment, blend, and manipulate phonemes.

You can do the word chains orally with students who are focusing on phonemes instead of spelling, and you can also choose to use graphemes with the recording sheet and word ladders.