Curly or Not <ou>

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Creative Commons BY-NC Adapted from "Curly and Straight" by Radha HS and Ruchi Shah. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Free Science Decodable Reader with 'ou' Words | Curly or Not

Practice Words

Words featuring the 'ou' vowel team, which can produce /aʊ/, /ʊ/, /uː/, or /əʊ/ sounds.

ground proud round sound
Page 1
A girl with glasses does a handstand with her very long curly hair cascading down and spreading across the gold background.

Hair can have a tight curl to it that makes it spring.

Page 2
A girl with glasses has extremely spiky hair sticking straight out in all directions like a starburst on gold background.

Some hair is straight. Her hair is flat on the ground.

Page 3
Line drawings on gold background showing a snail with spiral shell, an ostrich, a black cat, and a girl with long straight hair and glasses.

Some animals have a tail that curls. It can grab.

Page 4
A girl with wild curly hair and glasses stands next to line drawings of a horse, elephant, and lion with a mane.

There are animals that have straight tails as well.

Page 5
A girl with straight hair and glasses walks down a curving spiral staircase, drawn in black lines on gold background.

There are stairs that have a curl to them. They wind.

Page 6
A girl with big curly hair and glasses sits cross-legged on the floor next to a black cat with a curled tail.

What else can be curly or straight?

Page 7
A framed photo shows a girl with straight hair and glasses holding a camera while standing on a mountain peak.

Here she is, proud at the top of a hill. The path curls all the way to the top.

Page 8
Close-up of a girl with very curly hair and glasses next to a pattern of straight vertical lines and a pencil.

When we draw, we can make our lines straight.

Page 9
A girl with long straight hair and glasses smiles next to a pattern of wavy vertical lines on gold background.

We can draw lines that curl to have a round part.

Page 10
A girl with curly hair and glasses stands between two spiral swirl patterns, with a cat peeking from one spiral.

Some food is curly. We make it coil like a snake.

Page 11
A girl with straight hair and glasses rests her chin on her hand, looking at spiral cinnamon roll shapes nearby.

Does the curly snack sound good to her?

Page 12
A girl with glasses and straight hair holds two jars comparing curly pasta shapes to straight pasta on a gold background.

Curly and straight snacks. How will she choose?

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