Students explore how to blend words. They distinguish phonemes and practice blending them. Students practice the /oo/ sound and identify words that contain that sound. They read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and identify words that have the...

Students are introduced to the vowel pattern that produces the /oo/ sound in words. Through matching, listening, and spelling activities, students recognize the phoneme /oo/ and its placement in words. They read a passage with words...

In this letter and number recognition worksheet, students use a secret code box to help them spell 4 short Oo words. Students then draw pictures of the words.

In this short o sounds learning exercise, 1st graders use the alphabet and number code box to help them spell out the words. Students use the word bank to help them spell the short 'o' sound words.

This Prezi presentation introduces the two ways we spell the short oo sound.

This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow up lesson.

In this game students help Uncle Tom get ready for bed by clicking and dragging "oo" sounds to make words and giving him his bedtime bits. Links to lesson plans for the "oo" sound and other games are available.

This reading game focuses on learning, identifying and using long vowel phonemes to form words, such as adding "y" to the end of a word, or "ou", "oo", etc. to the middle of a word.