Short O Sound Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RF.1.2.A

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When the vowel "o" is found in a word and it makes the "awe" sound, we to refer to it as a short o sound. You will find this specific vowel sound in words such as sock and block. We find it helpful for students to learn these vowel words first, because them seem to come more natural to them. We would suggest it is because they make an incredibly unique tone and mood that makes it stand out in your mind. It is often helpful to show students pictures of the words when learning them for the first time. You will find that these visual clues lead to a greater and quicker recall. These worksheets will give students a workout with words that contain short o sounds. We would encourage you to create a set of flash cards with at least a dozen or so of these words to help you review in the future.

Short O Sound Worksheets To Print:

Start Them Off - Mop, flop, top, dock, clock, fog, log. Just to name a few. How many of these words can you make by adding letters to the beginning of each set of letters below? Fill in as many as you can.

Picture Sounds - I always think that the "float" is a picture of an astronaut. Say the name of each picture out loud. Does it make that unique tone?

Boxed In - Start by finding a word that doesn't rhyme with block, slop, or blog. Read the words from the word box. Find the sets of words that rhyme with the bolded word and write them on the lines.

Recognizing It - You have three terms to sound out and determine if you hear it. Where do you plug this thing into?

Color the O! - You have to love the visuals we give you here. You choose which two colors that you wish to use for this worksheet.

Sounds Search - There is a pattern here it goes: 2-1-3-2-3. Do you see it? Circle the picture that identifies our word of interest.

Riddle Me This - This can be chopped and put into the fireplace. Read each description. What is it?

O Word Scrambles - You will be given scrambled text and a picture that correlates to it. Costume is the most difficult of the sorts.

Portrait of O - Can you think of four things whose name contains the short O sound? ? Draw a picture of each thing. Then write its name on the line.

Match-a-Roo - Find the word and picture match. You should say each word aloud to help.

Big and Little Words - Crossroads is the most difficult for sure. Each of the words below contains both the long and the short O sound. Underline the part of the word with the long and circle the part of the word with the short sound.

Can you Picture It? - Where is that O and three things you can think of three of them? Better yet, can you draw them for us?

Pull It In... - Where is all that color for you guys? You can take this next level, if you choose to.

Word Search - There are eight words in the puzzle that contain a short O. Find each of them in the letter matrix and write them on the line in the order in which you found them.

Listen for the Short O - It's great to use this one as an oral activity. Sort all the words into the sounds that they give off.

What Are Short O Sounds?


As the name suggests, short O sound words are the words that do not let vowel O to sound longer. Short O sound words are commonly used in daily life written and spoken content but many students are still not aware of such words. Given below are some techniques that will help one to locate short O sound words along with some examples:


How to Locate Short O Sounds


The easiest way to locate short O sound words is that such words never start or end with letter O, but contain letter O somewhere in the middle of the word. For example, the word "octopus" is not a short sound word as it is starting from letter O and the letter O is also sounding for a considerable time period. Another interesting way to locate short O sounds is by analyzing their pronunciation. When you pronounce short O words, the tongue first moves forward to touch the front teeth and then immediately is lowered to touch the bottom teeth. In this way, the vowel O does not really sound like O. While pronouncing any word that contains letter O in middle, be careful as it can be a short O sound word.


Examples of Short O Sounds Words


There are about millions of short O sounding words that it is not possible to list them in a single sitting. However, some of the most commonly used short O sound words are: pot, rod, toad, hop, mop, lot, not, rot, cop, top, bot, job, coat, cost, roast, toast, loss, rob, nob, nod, dog, log, box, fox, rock, dolphin, moth, sock, shop, rot, lock, dock, moss, toss, pop, cot, dot, got, hot, mom, dot, pomp, robe, log, frog, box, stock, boat, fox, clock, moth, doll, tom, joy, jot, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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