Educational worksheet for children learning the "oy/oi" sound, featuring a fun story about a new toy and interactive activities.

Let’s go step by step to solve this worksheet.

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Step 1: Understand the goal

This worksheet is about finding words that have the “oy” or “oi” sound — like in “boy,” “toy,” “joy,” etc. The story uses many of these words on purpose to help you practice hearing and seeing them.

You are asked to do three things:

1. Highlight all the words with the “oy/oi” sound.
2. Color the ball (the big circle on the left) and write “boing!” above it.
3. Read the story by yourself — which means just read it out loud or silently to practice.

Also, after each job, you color a happy face at the bottom. There are 3 jobs → 3 happy faces to color when done.

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Step 2: Find all the “oy/oi” words in the story

Let’s go through the story line by line and pick out every word that has the “oy” or “oi” sound.

> Oh boy! Mom came home
→ “boy” ✔

> with a new toy! It was big, red and
→ “toy” ✔

> went ‘boing!’ I was filled with joy.
→ “boing” ✔ (has “oi” sound)
→ “joy” ✔

> I sat on top and bounced (oy-oy-oy-oy-oy).
→ The parentheses show sounds, not real words — but they’re reminding us of the “oy” sound. We don’t highlight “oy” here because it’s not part of a real word in the sentence — it’s just showing how it sounds. So skip unless it’s inside a real word.

> I called my best friend and
→ No oy/oi here.

> asked him to join! Then, we
→ “join” ✔ (has “oi” sound)

> bounced together (oy-oy-oy-oy-oy)!
→ Again, just sound effect — no real word to highlight.

> We made a lot of noise (oy-oy-oy-oy-oy)!
→ “noise” ✔ (has “oi” sound)

> What a great choice! Thanks
→ “choice” ✔ (has “oi” sound)

> mom! I sure enjoy my new toy!
→ “enjoy” ✔ (has “oy” sound)
→ “toy” ✔ (again!)

Wait — let’s list them clearly so we don’t miss any:

From the text:

- boy
- toy (first time)
- boing
- joy
- join
- noise
- choice
- enjoy
- toy (second time)

That’s 9 words total.

But wait — what about “Oh”? Does “Oh” count? Let’s think.

“Oh” is pronounced /oʊ/, like “go” — NOT the same as “oy” (/ɔɪ/) like in “boy.” So ✘ not included.

What about “Mom”? No. “Home”? No. “Red”? No. “Bounced”? That ends with “ed” — the root is “bounce,” which has “ou” sound — not “oy/oi.” So ✘.

So final list of words to highlight:

✔ boy
✔ toy (x2 — appears twice)
✔ boing
✔ joy
✔ join
✔ noise
✔ choice
✔ enjoy

Total = 8 unique words, but “toy” appears twice — so if you’re highlighting every occurrence, you’d highlight “toy” two times.

In most school worksheets, they want you to highlight every instance — even repeats.

So let’s count occurrences:

Line-by-line:

1. “Oh boy!” → boy
2. “new toy!” → toy
3. “went ‘boing!’” → boing
4. “filled with joy.” → joy
5. “asked him to join!” → join
6. “lot of noise” → noise
7. “great choice!” → choice
8. “sure enjoy” → enjoy
9. “new toy!” → toy (again)

So yes — 9 highlighted words total (including repeat of “toy”).

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Step 3: Color the ball and write “boing!”

The big circle on the left is the “ball” mentioned. You should color it (any color is fine — maybe red, since the story says the toy was red?).

Above that ball, write the word: “boing!” — including the exclamation mark, since that’s how it’s written in the story.

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Step 4: Read the story by yourself

Just read the whole thing from start to finish. Practice saying it out loud if you can — especially the parts with “oy-oy-oy” — that helps your brain remember the sound!

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Step 5: Color the happy faces

There are 3 tasks:

1. Highlight words → color first smiley
2. Color ball + write “boing!” → color second smiley
3. Read story → color third smiley

After you finish each one, color one happy face.

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Final Answer:

Words to highlight (in order as they appear):

- boy
- toy
- boing
- joy
- join
- noise
- choice
- enjoy
- toy (again)

Color the big circle (ball) on the left.

Write “boing!” above the ball.

Read the entire story aloud or silently.

Color all three happy faces at the bottom after completing each task.