Teaching vowels with visual feedback if you watch closely you can see the jaw drop just slightly each time a lower vowel is. Long oo word list flip book ideal for phonics practice. Most oo words are pronounced using the long oo sound. Here they are exceptions to the rules mentioned above are marked with.
In the classroom, students learn a large number of vocabulary words. For example, the ow sound list has 2 and 3 syllable words in which the ow sound is spelled either ow or ou. The corresponding short o word is god, the long o is goad, and the long oo is gooed. Finally, words derived from the words above, such as footing from foot, looked from look, etc. The authors restricted content to onesyllable words with short vowels, where consonant digraphs and consonant clusters are decodable for readers. If students need more examples, reference the actionsobjects in hop on pop remember to talk about letter sounds, not spelling. Choose whether you want to print the large line spacing k123 9 words per page or the small line spacing 456 12 words per page.
I have come up with a rule that works in most situations. Words that have contain oo and double vowels you go words. Long oo phonics sound a free printable phonics flip book covering the oo sound. Teaching vowels with visual feedback if you watch closely you can. Great cvc and cvce long and short vowel discrimination practice to really. This is our name for vowels that do not say the name of the letter as in a in late, though only e, i and u are actually short sounds. I began by writing oo on a postin note and asking my son if he knew what sound these letters make. It is referred to as the short oo sound on index cards write the words. Last weeks spelling words had the longoo sound, which is in words like pool and noon.
How do you know which pronunciation of oo to use when you see it in words. The letters oo are used to spell two slightly different sounds. Because it is impossible to teach anyone to properly pronounce and spell every word they will use, teaching them the basic phonic. These are words that are used frequently by young children, and words that appear in many favorite books and videos that young children. List of 1,922 words that have contain oo and double vowels.
Two silly oos rule, long and short vowel sound i sound words, oo sound. Flash cards a word on each card which enables a variety of games and activities. After we do handson activities, i like to finish with a few printed worksheets to assess what hes learned. Learn this spelling list using the look, say, cover, write, check activity. Long and short oo word hunt oo words, word sort activities.
A long vowel sound, such as food, sounds different to a short vowel sound aka cook. Printable word list a useful printable resource of the word list. After working our way through the silent e words, we tackled oo words. If you like the word lists, you may be interested in these other products designed to teach long vowel sounds. Long vowel stories free printable reading elephant. Intermediate put the words into the correct columns.
Video to help teach the long vowel digraph sounds of oo from. Almost all english speakers say book with a short vowel in fact a schwa. All sentences are made from graphemes and tricky words within. Seussdigital version available to borrow through internet archive digital library create a free account to use. Other long vowel sounds are the e at the end pattern or silent e as in words like lake, bike and hope. The letter group ood is mostly pronounced with a short oo, but it can also be pronounced with a long oo as in brood, food, and mood. The third book in the series, this text features words with long vowel sounds, with each doublepage spread introducing readers to a set of three short, rhyming words for instance, jake, make, rake and then using them in a sentence jake can make a cake with a rake. If a word with a certain vowel in it says the name of the vowel, then that vowel is making a long sound. Adults can use the terms short vowel and long vowel among ourselves if we like, but i dont think its helpful to teach this misleading and confusing terminology to children. They also used the 50 most common words in english, mostly function words needed to read any text, like the, a, of, is, to, etc. Posts about short oo written by pronunciationcoach. Show short vowel slides and model listening for short a, e, i, o, and u.
These are phonics words with long oo many of which are on the first two pages of the download above, yet these are also alphabetized. The printable phonics worksheets on this page were designed to help you teach students to read words with the short and long oo sounds. Jul 01, 2012 video to help teach the long vowel digraph sounds of oo from. I created this oo vowel teams sort so that the students can practice reading words and determining if the word makes the oo sound like book or the oo sound like moon. Vowel song to the tune of mary had a little lamb vowels can be short or long x3. After we do handson activities, i like to finish with a few. But occasionally, it has a shorter sound, as in book, took, look, cook, foot, and cookie.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. This is a words sort using the vowel diagraph oo as in book. Examples of short vowels in onesyllable words include the following. View more spellzone course lists or curriculum word lists. You can teach your class about long and short oo words and sounds with this set of word cards. Put your foot in the boot before you leave the room. A typical short vowel pattern is called the consonant vowel consonant pattern, or cvc.
See more ideas about oo words, oo sound and phonics activities. Our original digital story books and teaching materials. The logical place to start learning then, is with those words that are not long, those pronounced with short. Then, repeat the exercise from step 5 with the remaining short vowel objects. Words using the spelling and reading pattern short double oo sound as. This resource is available in standard, precursive, editable and userrequest. Scroll down the page for more examples and songs to help you learn how to pronounce short oo and long oo words.
Learn the phonics letter oo sounds by red cat reading. Download five oo words phonics worksheets for your kids to practice while writing three times each. Use this interactive reading game on your interactive whiteboard. Spellingreading pattern long double oo sound as heard in m oo n this spellingreading pattern oo has two sounds long, and short. An ideal video for kids to learn the short oo sound. This spellingreading pattern oo has two sounds long, and short. It includes a sorting activity for sorting the oo long and short sounds, an original story to.
Short vowels if a word contains only one vowel, and that vowel appears in the middle of the word, the vowel is usually pronounced as a short vowel. A super phoneme spotter story for children to use to practise their recognition of the oo short vowel sound. If you start with the oo vowel and then lower the tongue just slightly you can say the oo as in book, a little lower you can say the long o sound as in boat, even lower you can say the ah vowel. The short and long phonics oo sounds make up words that are seen every day, such as look, book, choo choo and zoo.
Does book have a long or short vowel sound answers. Scroll down the page for more examples and songs to. Teach your class about long and short oo words and sounds with this set of word cards. Whats the difference between short and long vowels. Oo vowel team sort oo like book and oo like moon by 4. Furthermore, all words ending with oo are pronounced with a long u. The problem for most learners is that the spelling looks like a long vowel sound because it has two vowels. Use this oo words resource in your phonics lessons. Because the oo sound in moon is more common, were learning that one first. The vast majority of english words containing oo that we didnt mention above are pronounced with a long.
The easiest way to remember the difference between short and long vowels is by remembering the rule about long vowels, specifically. Knowing how the english vowel system works, with longvowels and shortvowels, can help train your brain to work with english in a way that is similar to how nativespeakers process the language. Instead, we can just say the sounds the sound ay, the sound oy etc and teach. Usually long ea words are taught with long ee words like. If a word contains only one vowel, and that vowel appears in the middle of the word, the vowel is usually pronounced as a short vowel. Phonetically, it sounds more like prittee, not prettai. Two separate slides, one with several images of objects containing long vowel sounds and one with objects containing short vowel sounds. Words with only three letters are the easiest to make the short vowel sound out of, as you will see.
Choose a book from one of the clifford phonics collections or a classic such as bringing the rain to kapiti plain, cliffords puppy days, the bike lesson, new shoes for sylvia, or the troll. Aug 22, 2018 struggling readers require a lot of practice with long ea words. See more ideas about oo sound, oo words and phonics. Add length, consonants, vowels, syllables, origin, spelling and more. Those tricky oo sounds often, the oo sound is long, as in words like school, room, boot, moon, and goose. The short vowel sound generally occurs when there is one vowel in a word, either at the beginning of the word or in between two consonants. But longoo and shortoo is a pair of vowel sounds that follow some of the spelling and pronunciation patterns of the other long and short vowels of english. In general, if oo is followed by a k, it is short, and otherwise, it is long. The long o sound oh would sound like the scottish slang word boke. This is an ideal resource for those looking to introduce to children the idea of different. Long vowel phoneme oo game reading games and guided. Generally, oo words make only 2 sounds in the english language.
This can be used as a whole class activity or a literacy center. Struggling readers require a lot of practice with long ea words. Jan 14, 2016 a vowel digraph is made up of two vowels a, e, i, o, u. Welcome to the ontrack reading multisyllable word lists. Select a book to read to the class that features words with long vowel sounds. Short vowel sounds american english uses strong vowel sounds, and we have two or more sounds for each letter. The e is sounded like a short i, and the y is sounded like a long e. Which oo sound is it the oo in look or the oo in cool. Students read the words, circle to oo, then cut, sort and glue the words into the correct category. The vast majority of english words containing oo that we didnt mention above are pronounced with a long u.
When teaching vowel sounds, try using examples such as if and elk or fit and flat. Short and long vowels differences and examples udemy blog. Begin by introducing the oo sound heard in the word look. The oo pair in book has a short oo sound, as in good and foot.
Learn short oo and long oo sounds with fun, english help. The word good has a short oo vowel sound as in book, wool, and wood, and also in bull, push, and put. Each multisyllabic word list you will find below focuses on one of the nineteen vowel sounds found in english words. This is our name for vowels that do not say the name of the letter as in a in late, though. Long ea words with free phonics book reading elephant.
Kids will be introduced to lots of words that contain the short oo sound. Find shortvowel decodable books written by teachers. Just like all of the short vowels of english, a key factor to pronounce it well is to relax your tongue. Students cut and paste words with long oo like book and short oo. This cards cover helpful vocabulary for use in teaching long oo and short oo sounds and feature wonderful illustrations to help your students remember each one. Mar 05, 2014 an ideal video for kids to learn the short oo sound.