How Do You Spell Oa

If we hear the long O sound in the middle of a word, we use OA. We use the keyword goat to help our students remember this. If we hear the long O sound at the end of the word, we use OE. Our keyword for this is toe.

What are OA words?

• oak.
• coat.
• loaf.
• road.
• toad.
• toast.
• groan.
• throat.

Is OA a vowel?

Vowel teams are probably the most common source of reading and spelling errors as one vowel sound may be represented by as many as 6 different vowel teams (e.g. long ‘o’ represented by ‘oa’, ‘ow’, ‘oe’, ‘o_e,’ ‘ough’ and ‘ew’ as in sew).