Diphthongs (au and aw) worksheet - Free Printable

Let’s solve this step by step.

First, we have a word bank with these words:
author, caught, sauce, faucet, straw, hawk, awful, yawn, laws, draw

We need to pick the right word from the bank to fill in each blank in sentences 1–10.

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Sentence 1:
“Turn off the ________ after you have brushed your teeth.”
→ You turn off water after brushing — that’s the faucet.
✔ Answer: faucet

Sentence 2:
“I can ________ a picture of a colorful butterfly.”
→ To make a picture with pencil or pen = draw
✔ Answer: draw

Sentence 3:
“An ________ is someone that writes a book.”
→ That’s an author
✔ Answer: author

Sentence 4:
“We saw a ________ flying high in the sky.”
→ A bird that flies high — hawk fits (and has “aw”)
✔ Answer: hawk

Sentence 5:
“Please cover your mouth when you ________”
→ When you’re tired and open your mouth wide — yawn
✔ Answer: yawn

Sentence 6:
“Mom’s pizza ________ was red and delicious.”
→ Pizza topping that’s red — sauce
✔ Answer: sauce

Sentence 7:
“Aaron used a ________ to drink his juice.”
→ You drink through a straw
✔ Answer: straw

Sentence 8:
“________ are rules we must obey.”
→ Rules = laws
✔ Answer: Laws

Sentence 9:
“Another word for bad is ________”
→ Bad = awful
✔ Answer: awful

Sentence 10:
“Brandon ________ four butterflies in a jar.”
→ He captured them — caught
✔ Answer: caught

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Now, part 2: Put these words in alphabetical order:

Words: pause, awesome, fault, lawn, because

Let’s list them and sort by first letter:

- awesome → starts with ‘a’
- because → starts with ‘b’
- fault → starts with ‘f’
- lawn → starts with ‘l’
- pause → starts with ‘p’

Alphabetical order: a, b, f, l, p

So:

11. awesome
12. because
13. fault
14. lawn
15. pause

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Final Answer:

1. faucet
2. draw
3. author
4. hawk
5. yawn
6. sauce
7. straw
8. Laws
9. awful
10. caught
11. awesome
12. because
13. fault
14. lawn
15. pause