Other letter combinations that make the same vowel sound as in hoop are eu, as in sleuth, ew as in chew, o as in do. Read the first two sentences and model for students how to click the speaker icon next to the words to hear them read aloud. I have come up with a rule that works in most situations. Excellent short vowel books set students up for success. My son still makes frequent spelling mistakes in his writing. Often, the y or w is only a minor part of the sound, but must be included for the sound to be pronounced fully. Spellingreading pattern long double oo sound as heard in m oo n this spellingreading pattern oo has two sounds long, and short.
The oo letter combination can also make the short u sound, as in book. Most of my students learn to create a perfect other u sound simply by staring with the oo sound, and then relaxing the lips. Decodable books decodable books and phonics lessons direct instruction for soundsymbol relationships. The u with another vowel makes an, oo sound like oo in the words. Another pronunciation in some common words with oo is the aw as in law sound.
The short oo soundwords are from left to right, right to left, up to down and down to up i. For example, the ow sound list has 2 and 3 syllable words in which the ow sound is spelled either ow or ou. If you have a classroom of kids at different levels, you. Generally, oo words make only 2 sounds in the english language a long vowel sound, such as food or a short vowel sound such as cook. The short and long phonics oo sounds make up words that are seen every day, such as look, book, choo choo and zoo. A third activity for the phonics oo sound is to read books with your child that feature the phonics long oo and short oo sounds. They also feature popular words that your child might use on a regular basis, making them great practice. Words like read, for example, are pronounced as the long vowel sound when the tense is. For this sound, ive only found words where oo is followed by r, and that does change the aw sound, it makes it more round. These are words that are used frequently by young children, and words that appear in many favorite books and videos that young children like to watch and can learn from. Notice that o often reduces to this sound as in color, come, does, done, money, nothing, other, mother, work. Listen to both sounds, ill say the oo sound first, then the other u sound oo sound, other u, oo sound, other u. Vowel digraph double oo sound words like pool cool school tool broom room too boo spookley these glasses are easy to assemble and great for teaching double oo words. Reading street unit 5 week 3 day 1 oo like in book.
Reading elephant has offered a few free long vowel stories. Other letter combinations that make the same vowel sound as in hoop are eu, as in sleuth, ew as in chew, o as in do, ue as in cue, and the vce pattern in the words tube and lute. Words with only three letters are the easiest to make the short vowel sound out of, as you will see. Learn the phonics letter oo sounds by red cat reading. Nov 26, 2014 this set has three books with ee words, one book with oo as in book, and two books with oo as in moon. There are no blends or silent letters as oo says only one sound. For in the snow, i reused the pictures from the short vowel story, the red cat.
A perfect video for kids to learn the long oo sound. Vowel digraphs worksheets and teaching resources unit 2. Kids will learn words that contain the long oo sound, thus building their vocabulary, pronunciation and spelling skills. After reading the first page, your child can practice reading the sound with the first big word. Letters and sounds for home and school 104,262 views 19. Mar 05, 2014 a perfect video for kids to learn the long oo sound. In this early reading worksheet, your child gets practice sounding out and writing words with the oo vowel sound. This guided lesson covers these three areas in order to enhance kids skills with decoding more challenging texts. Teaches words with consonant clusters making more than one sound, and revises ck, x, qu. Good short vowel books force students to analyze phonetic units and read soundbysound. Each multisyllabic word list you will find below focuses on one of the nineteen vowel sounds found in english words. Phonics printable books, worksheets, and lesson plans. This is, however, just a normal stage children go through while learning how to spell.
These books revise the long vowel sounds and spelling patterns taught in stage 4, and all. You know what will happen if you simply them to write longer sentences. May 17, 2016 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. How do you know which pronunciation of oo to use when you see it in words. Our long vowel phonemes lesson plan oo words requires the following resources. Long vowel oo reading game, interactive whiteboard, small individual whiteboards with pens, or paper and pencils, small card showing oo sound, list of words used in the reading game. Phonics read and color books mixed words dolch sight words dolch sight words unit. Decodable books decodable books and phonics lessons direct instruction for sound symbol relationships.
When one sees the pattern of two vowels next to each other and the first vowel is a u, the grammatical rule for that arrangement is that the u will say oo and the second vowel is silent. Books such as this book for short oo sounds and this book for long oo sounds are ideal for helping your child to identify the sounds in the book with ease. Long vowels with clifford scholastic books for kids. Showing top 8 worksheets in the category vowel patterns oo u. I can decode words with vowel sound oo like in book.
Some words use the short vowel sound and the long vowel sound, depending on the tense of the word. So, lets get back to the oo spelling for these sounds. You will find 64 word cards, 8 special cards, a blank page for you to add your own words, and a recording sheet to. Read aloud the book you choose that features words with long vowel sounds.
My five is a great reader, but when it comes to reading words in isolation, his phonics skills need some work. You can boost reading fluency further by printing the. Homophones are words that sound the same, but have different meanings or spellings. Mar 05, 2014 an ideal video for kids to learn the short oo sound. The one attached in this post is in the snow, a free long vowel story for kids that have already learned all the long vowel sounds. Sep 15, 2011 most of my students learn to create a perfect other u sound simply by staring with the oo sound, and then relaxing the lips. Ukus spellings, uncategorized, vowels, whole language, word attack. The sound this week is the long vowel combination oo as in zoo. Vowel digraph oo, ou, ew, aw, ow phonics worksheets and. Vowel sounds long a sound as in baby, mermaid, highway, and basin.
Jan 31, 2018 reading elephant has offered a few free long vowel stories. A short vowel sounds book with consonant blends sounds like reading 97807642014. A spelling pattern that is true for all long vowel sounds is the vowelconsonante vc e pattern. All sentences are made from graphemes and tricky words within phase 3 of letters and sounds, with a few longer words from phase 4. The objective of this spelling word game is for the child to identify the correct spelling of the vowel sound in the words in order to move forward on the game board. Oo in book oo can make the sound of the vowel in book or it can.
Spelling word lists which are grouped by vowel sound or consonant sound particularly lend themselves to the word study approach. Twinkl key stage 1 year 1, year 2 english ks1 phonics. Vowel digraphs are combination of vowels that combine to make a single vowel sound like the aw in claw, the ew in news, the ow in snow, the ou in cloud, and the oo in book i usually teach vowel digraphs unit 2 after teaching long vowel digraphs unit 1 or rcontrolled vowels, but it is. Repeat the vowel sounds in each pair and identify them as having a short or long vowel sound. The printable phonics worksheets on this page were designed to help you teach students to read words with the short and long oo sounds. The variant vowel oo letter combination, as in hoop, blue, and new, is fairly consistent in its pronunciation. Long vowel stories free printable reading elephant. Learning the building blocks of words sounds, their spellings, and word parts. Also, since my son often makes errors in the spelling of vowel sounds in particular, i decided to create a series of spelling word lists grouped by vowel sound. View more spellzone course lists or curriculum word lists. Kids will be introduced to lots of words that contain the short oo sound. Short vowel books are a stepping stone in the reading process.
Ow can sound like o as noted above, and ou does have several sounds. 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. Sounds and their corresponding symbols are taught in phonics lessons that are systematically organized, use direct and explicit instruction, provide blending and segmenting practice, and provide word manipulation practice. This set has three books with ee words, one book with oo as in book, and two books with oo as in moon. The digraph oo as in moon sounds very much like the u for esl learners. The vc e pattern states that when a single vowel is followed by a single consonant, then the letter e, the first vowel is pronounced as a long vowel sound and the letter e is silent. But occasionally, it has a shorter sound, as in book, took, look, cook, foot, and cookie.
Good short vowel books force students to analyze phonetic units and read sound by sound. Your child should read the first page by saying the sound of oo rather than naming the letters. This stage is known as the transitional stage my son understands that sounds are represented by letter combinations but he is still confusing these different constructions. Its the main way we say this sound, so these make good elementary esl phonics worksheets. They only contain short vowel words and very few sight words. This spellingreading pattern oo has two sounds long, and short. An ideal video for kids to learn the short oo sound.
These worksheets are a great tool to check your students understanding of oo words. If they identify the correct spelling for the vowel sound in the word, they move forward the number of places shown on the dice. Long vowel a with abe long vowel a with jade long vowel a with zain long vowel e with eve long vowel e with dee long vowel e with teal. Vowel sounds long a sound as in baby, mermaid, highway, and basin long e sound as in bean, lean, taxi, and galaxy. In general, if oo is followed by a k, it is short, and otherwise, it is long. Second grade phonics covers more advanced rules that build upon kids foundational reading skills, such as vowel pairs ai, ee, ea, oo, long and short vowels, and the silent e. The letters oo are used to spell two slightly different sounds. Vowel patterns oo u worksheets printable worksheets. English words containing oo usually use a cvvc pattern, meaning that there are one or more consonants on either end of the phonogram in a one syllable word. Take students to the first page of the emily elizabeth goes to school student activity. Pocket chartstudent manipulatives cards one each of oo, ew, ui plus alphabet letter cards and short phrases with illustrations for each sound printables for each vowel digraphs with cut and paste building words activities word searches for oo, e.
Demonstrate this point by listing on the chalkboard word pairs such as. Ive been putting together a variety of games and activities for simple phonics patterns. Twosound vowels are known linguistically as diphthongs pronounced as dipthong or difthong in north american english, four of the five. Some of the worksheets displayed are spelling words list 21 vowel patterns for u oo ue ew, s o r t vowel digraph oo 31, long vowel sounds word lists, super phonics 2, vowel patterns, long u vowel sound word, learning the different sounds of a e i o u and, long a patterns in accented syllables 20. A twosound vowel is a vowel sound that includes a y sound yor a w sound w in the pronunciation. See more ideas about phonics, vowel digraphs and oo words. This shooting hoops game lets students practice reading the words and deciding if the word needs the short oo sound or the long oo sound. Place the poster in a loose leaf folder to create a book or personal sounds the student needs to work on. Welcome to the ontrack reading multisyllable word lists. 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. Those tricky oo sounds often, the oo sound is long, as in words like school, room, boot, moon, and goose. Reading words that have the double letters oo can be tricky for students. Scholastic teachables worksheets, lesson plans, learning games, and more. Oo, sound, oo, ou, word search worksheets has 6 word searches with 61 words.
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