Sight Word Our Worksheet

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NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comourourourourourourourourTrace it. Then write it.Find "our". Circle it every time. How many did you find?Read it. Say it. Spell it aloud.ourourhouryourhourareoursoutouroutorourourfourareoursoursourours
NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comWrite the missing word. Then read the sentence.Read the sentence. Then write it.Cut out the letters at the bottom. Glue them here in order to build the word.This ishouse.Our names are on it.ruo
NameDateMade at homeroomtools.comFind "our". Circle it every time. How many did you find?Write the missing word. Then read the sentence.Cut out the letters at the bottom. Glue them here in order to build the word.Read it. Say it. Spell it aloud.Answer keyour5ourhouryourhourareoursoutouroutorourourfourareoursoursouroursThis ishouse.ourourruo
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The word "our" on 2 pages and 1 page of answers, Letter landscape.

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The word on its own 3

  • our 3 letters: o-u says ow, as in out, and the r comes last. No letter is tall and none has a tail, so the whole word sits between the dashed line and the base line.
  • Our our Capital O beside small o: the same round shape in two sizes. Lines such as Our dog is big. start with the capital.
  • our our our our Four to trace in one row. Say it the slow way each time, ow-er, the way it sounds alone.

Spot-the-word rows 4

  • our are our hour Circle our 2 times. Hour is what our sounds like said alone, and are is what it sounds like said fast. Only the spelling tells them apart.
  • our ours our us our Circle our 3 times. Ours has an s on the end and stands alone. Us names the people that our belongs to.
  • our out our or our Circle our 3 times. Out swaps the last letter for a t, and or has lost the u in the middle.
  • your our four our Circle our 2 times. Your and four end in the same three letters, but there they say or.
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Missing-letter rows 4

  • ou_ o_r _ur One letter is missing each time: r, then u, then o. Say our first, because ou_ could also turn into out.
  • ou_ ou_ ou_ A listening row. Say our, out, our. The first two letters are printed, so the child listens for the last sound and writes r, t, r.
  • our h___ s___ fl___ A rhyme row. The same three letters finish hour, sour and flour, and they keep the same sound in each.
  • our ou_ o__ ___ A fading row. Copy the word, then finish it from two letters, from one letter, and from memory.

Phrases about things we share 12

  • all of our books All has the a of ball, and the f in of says v. Books has the oo of look.
  • at our table Our does not have to come first. At sounds out. Table ends in l-e.
  • my dog, our dog One owner, then more than one: my turns into our when the dog belongs to the whole family.
  • our bus Bus sounds out. A phrase for the end of the day, when every class finds its own.
  • our class Our means it belongs to us, the people talking. Class sounds out and doubles its s.
  • our family The first us a child belongs to. Family ends in a y that says e.
  • our flag Flag sounds out and starts with the blend f-l. A flag belongs to everyone under it, which is the job of our.
  • our new rug New has the ew of few. Rug sounds out. Two words can sit between our and the thing owned.
  • our pet fish Pet and fish sound out, and fish ends in sh. A pet that belongs to the whole class.
  • our school School starts with s-c-h, where the c-h says k, and has the oo of moon.
  • our teacher Teacher has the ea of eat, a ch in the middle, and ends in er.
  • our town Town has the ow of cow, the same sound that starts our, spelled another way.

Sentences to read and copy 12

  • Come to our show. 4 words. Show ends in o-w, which here says a long o, not the ow that starts our.
  • Is that our bus? 4 words and a question mark. That starts with a th that buzzes. Bus sounds out.
  • Our dog is big. 4 words. The capital O starts the line. Dog, is and big are quick to read, so the eyes can stay on our.
  • Our hour is up. 4 words. Our and hour sound the same. Hour keeps an h nobody says, and it means sixty minutes.
  • Our names are on it. 5 words. Our comes first with a capital O, and are comes third. Try my in each place: My names makes sense, names my on it does not.
  • Our plant needs sun. 4 words. Plant ends in the blend n-t, needs has the double e of see, and sun sounds out.
  • Our pup is all ours. 5 words. Our comes before the pup. Ours stands alone at the end, and takes an s with no mark in the air.
  • She is our friend. 4 words. Friend hides an i in front of its e.
  • This is our house. 4 words. Our comes just before the thing we share. House holds the same o-u as our, and it says ow both times.
  • We are in our room. 5 words, with are and our in one line. Are goes with we. Our goes with the room. Read it slowly so the two do not blur.
  • We ate our lunch. 4 words. Ate has a silent e that makes the a say its name. Lunch ends in ch.
  • We love our mom. 4 words. We and our go together: we are the people, our marks what is theirs. The o in love says a short u.

How this list was compiled: Every line was written for this site on 2026-09-19 and read aloud for sense. No line is taken from a published sight word list or workbook, and the page claims no list or grade level for the word. Spellings were checked against the macOS system word list. The counts in the spot-the-word rows and the word counts of the sentences were worked out. That our has a strong form said like hour and a weak form said like are, that it means belonging to us, and that our is recorded as a misspelling of are: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/our (checked 2026-09-19). That hour is said with no h sound and lists our as a homophone: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hour (checked 2026-09-19). That are lists our as a homophone: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/are (checked 2026-09-19). That ours is the form used with no noun after it, and that the spelling with an apostrophe is obsolete: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ours (checked 2026-09-19). That flour, hour and sour rhyme with our: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/aʊə(ɹ) (checked 2026-09-19). That your, four and pour rhyme with or, not with our: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/your, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pour (checked 2026-09-19). Sound notes describe general American pronunciation. Licence: own work

How it works

Alone, our sounds like hour. Hurried, it sounds like are, which children then write in its place. This sight word our sheet has them trace it, circle it among out, are, or and hour, and finish This is ___ house.

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Hour when slow, are when fast

Wiktionary gives "our" a strong form that matches hour and a weak one that matches are. It records "our" as a misspelling of "are". So "This is are house" is an honest mistake by ear. On the board, write the row "our are our hour" from the full list near the bottom of this page. Only sentences can go on the sheet. The Oxford English Corpus list on Wikipedia ranks the word 86th.

Out with a new last letter

A child who reads out knows most of our: o-u says ow in both. The rhyme row "our h___ s___ fl___" shows the same three letters keeping their sound in hour, sour and flour. Your, four and pour hold them too but say or.

  • Try "my" in the gap. "This is my house" makes sense, so the word is our. "We my six" fails.
  • Our needs a thing after it. Alone at the end it grows an s: Our pup is all ours.
  • Teach our beside we. Sweep a hand around the group for we, then point at something shared for our.

Questions and answers

Why does my student write are when the word is our?

In quick speech the two sound the same, and a child spelling by ear has nothing else to go on. Give them meaning instead: our answers whose, and are does not. Dictate "We are in our room." slowly, then ask which word tells whose.

Can our be sounded out?

In its slow form, yes: o-u says ow, as in out and house, and the r follows. The hurried version that matches "are" cannot be, so have children whisper the careful ow-er whenever they spell it.

What is the difference between our and hour?

They sound the same when said slowly. Our tells whose, and hour is a length of time, with a silent h. The sentence "Our hour is up." holds both, so have the child circle the word that tells whose.

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