Say these words aloud and listen to the vowel sound. The lips are a bit relaxed, and then the come into a tighter circle. Worksheets, cut and pastes, literacy stations, creative writing everything you need to just print and go for teaching long a. Select a book to read to the class that features words with long vowel sounds. A vowel digraph is made up of two vowels a, e, i, o, u. Explain to students how slight differences in a words spelling can affect its vowel sound. This spellingreading pattern oo has two sounds long, and short. Usually long ea words are taught with long ee words like. The story includes many oo sight words, such as moon, noon, room, soon, bloom, and balloon. A long vowel sounds book sounds like reading 97807642045. Long vowel words, then, are words that contain a long vowel sound.
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. Words using the spelling and reading pattern short double oo sound as. The vast majority of english words containing oo that we didnt mention above are pronounced with a long u. This oo like book and oo like moon word work unit has 12 activities that are ideal for independent work or center work. A vocabulary word list word bank of long u and long oo words. The printable phonics worksheets on this page were designed to help you teach students to read words with the short and long oo sounds. 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. The variant vowel oo letter combination, as in hoop, blue, and new, is fairly consistent in its pronunciation. Printable phonics worksheets for teaching students about the short and long oo sounds. Because the oo sound in moon is more common, were learning that one first. Long oo words vocabulary word list enchanted learning. There are words like, moose, goose, book, moon, spoon and pool.
Read aloud the book you choose that features words with long vowel sounds. By contrast, the short u sound is pronounced more like uh, as in words like cub and tub. 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. Oo vowel team sort oo like book and oo like moon by 4. The most common pronunciation for the letter oo is the sound u.
The logical place to start learning then, is with those words that are not long, those pronounced with short. Download five oo words phonics worksheets for your kids to practice while writing three times each. Oo words book introduces adult learners to words that have the oo sound in them. It ends with the learner reading long reading passages that focus on words with the oo sound.
The long o sound oh would sound like the scottish slang word boke. Demonstrate this point by listing on the chalkboard word pairs such as ratrate, bitbite, cotcoat, fedfeed, and cubcube. Flash cards a word on each card which enables a variety of games and activities. In this long vowel phoneme reading game uncle tom is getting ready for bed and exploring long vowel phonemes hes really interested in learning the oo phoneme and words that use this sound. I began by writing oo on a postin note and asking my son if he knew what sound these letters make. If your school has been closed due to the coronavirus, we are offering free temporary access to enchanted learning. Notice that, for the oo vowel, the lips do still come into a tight circle. The u with another vowel makes an, oo sound like oo in the words. The following diagram shows some examples of short oo words. See more ideas about phonics, oo words and word sorts. Learning to distinguish between phonemes is a fundamental part of speaking, reading and writing.
In north america, these are typically the words when the oo phonogram is followed by the letter r. Jan 12, 2020 all of those oo words were pronounced the same way in middle english, with a sound that was pretty much the same as the modern high german long o. Scroll down the page for more examples and songs to help you learn how to pronounce short oo and long oo words. 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.
How do you know which pronunciation of oo to use when you see it in words. 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. The short and long phonics oo sounds make up words that are seen every day, such as look, book, choo choo and zoo. Another rule to mention when teaching long vowel words is simply stated in the rhyme, when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking. Little oo and long oo digraph worksheets teaching resources. Students read the words, circle to oo, then cut, sort and glue the words into the correct category. For example, the long u sound is pronounced like yoo, as would be the case in words like lure and tube. After we do handson activities, i like to finish with a few printed worksheets to assess what hes learned. Long ea words with free phonics book reading elephant. Print worksheets and activities using the word list.
Finally, words derived from the words above, such as footing from foot, looked from look, etc. If you like the word lists, you may be interested in these other products designed to teach long vowel sounds. See more ideas about oo words, oo sound and phonics. Mar 05, 2014 an ideal video for kids to learn the short oo sound. An ideal video for kids to learn the short oo sound. The long o sound of the oo phonogram is the rarest regardless of accent, with only a handful of words using it. Spellingreading pattern long double oo sound as heard in m oo n this spellingreading pattern oo has two sounds long, and short. Learn this spelling list using the look, say, cover, write, check activity. Learn the phonics letter oo sounds by red cat reading. This unit focuses on the vowel digraphs oo like book and oo like moon. But occasionally, it has a shorter sound, as in book, took, look, cook, foot, and cookie. Find and write the long oo words sound worksheet twinkl. The oo pair in book has a short oo sound, as in good and foot. Often, unstressed vowels have a more relaxed lip position.
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. Does book have a long or short vowel sound answers. 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. Long oo word list flip book ideal for phonics practice. List of 1,922 words that have contain oo and double vowels. Jul 01, 2012 video to help teach the long vowel digraph sounds of oo from.
Why is the oo in food pronounced differently than in the. Teaching vowels with visual feedback if you watch closely you can see the jaw drop just slightly each time a lower vowel is. 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. The oo letter combination can also make the short u sound, as in book. 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. This word search on the short oo vowel team also doubles as a coloring sheet. Twinkl key stage 1 year 1, year 2 english ks1 phonics.
Intermediate put the words into the correct columns. Spellingreading pattern short double oo sound as heard in f oo t. Kids will be introduced to lots of words that contain the short oo sound. Just like all of the short vowels of english, a key factor to pronounce it well is to relax your tongue. Any letter, or set of letters like oo, might have more than one pronunciation. See my other oo resource which more clearly identifies and highlights the different long oo and short oo sounds. However, sometime in the 15th or 16th century, the vowel was shortened in a few wordsblood, flood.
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 music bookmark the clifford interactive storybooks on the computers students will use. Most oo words are pronounced using the long oo sound. A perfect video for kids to learn the long oo sound. The long sound as in boot, the short sound as in book. 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. 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. Printable word list a useful printable resource of the word list.
Our long vowel phonemes lesson plan oo words requires the following resources. Place the poster in a loose leaf folder to create a book or personal sounds the student needs to work on. The problem for most learners is that the spelling looks like a long vowel sound because it has two vowels. Long oo phonics sound a free printable phonics flip book covering the oo sound. Here they are exceptions to the rules mentioned above are marked with. If there are two vowels in a word or syllable, the first vowel is usually long and the second vowel is silent, like in boat or rain. Test yourself using the listen and spell spelling test. Help him learn oo words and then give him his bedtime bits that will make him have a good nights sleep. View more spellzone course lists or curriculum word lists. Words that have contain oo and double vowels you go words. 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.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Struggling readers require a lot of practice with long ea words. Spellingreading pattern long double oo sound as heard in m oo n. After working our way through the silent e words, we tackled oo words. I have come up with a rule that works in most situations.
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. Jan 14, 2016 a vowel digraph is made up of two vowels a, e, i, o, u. Learn short oo and long oo sounds with fun, english help. The letters oo are used to spell two slightly different sounds. Almost all english speakers say book with a short vowel in fact a schwa.
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. Oo words uses large font and images to make reading easier. When vowels work as a team to make a long vowel sound, the second vowel is silent. This worksheet encourages children to find missing words, and then identify and colour the ones with the oo phoneme in them. A long vowel is a vowel sound that is pronounced the same way as the name of the letter itself.
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