Litterbug <oi> <oy>
Practice Words
Words containing 'oi' or 'oy' vowel teams, making the /ɔɪ/ diphthong sound.
Di is a litterbug. She likes to throw trash and watch it fly.
The next day as she wakes up, there is trash by her bed. It stinks!
It goes with her like a cloud. It takes all of her joy.
The girls and boys hate it. They tell her to clean up.
Di is left with the rats for pals. She feeds them scraps.
Di tries to hide from the world. She feels gross.
Di does not want to be a litterbug. There is no trick or ploy that will help. She just needs to change.
She runs, but the junk zooms with her. The flies come too.
Di sees a litterbug throw trash on the street. She tells them not to be a litterbug if they do not want to end up like her.
Di starts to grab all of the bits of trash that she can find. She puts them in bins.
The more trash that she puts in the bins, the more the cloud shrinks.
It is all gone! Her pals are glad that she had a big clean and is not a litterbug now.