Word Chain with the Short /o/ Vowel Sound

 

Word chains are good practice to acquire automaticity with speech sounds. Word chains can provide practice for targeted speech sounds. Soon, under Teacher Tools on our website, we will have word chains to practice different sounds. This word chain will have words with the short /o/ vowel sound. Teacher’s can use these chains by dictating the words to students and then having the students make one sound change. When making a word chain, each new word is different by only one sound. It is best to do this with small white boards so students can erase the letter (usually one letter) to make the new word.

Below is the dialog to use with a word chain.

Teacher: Write the word hop. (Students write the word.) What’s this word? Students say hop.   How do you spell it? Students spell the word h-o-p. Teacher then writes hop on the large board so all can see it.

Teacher: If this word says hop, make one change so it says pop. (Students change the h to a p.) What’s this word? Students say pop.   How do you spell it? Students spell the word p-o-p. Teacher erases the h in hop and replaces it with a p.

Continue the chain with the above dialog. With this approach, students are seeing the word, hearing the word and writing the word. They are using three of their five senses: sight, hearing and kinesthetic (by writing the word). Each time after the students have made the change on their white boards, the teacher changes her word as the students spell the new word.

Word Chain with the Short /o/ Vowel Sound

Here are the words for a chain using words with the short /o/ vowel sound.

hop

pop

pot

hot

cot

cob

rob

job

jog

dog

dot

rot

This word chain with short /o/ words would be good to use when students are doing Lessons 4 in English Reading and Spelling for the Spanish Speaker Book 1.

Fisher Hill’s English literacy program has six levels.

Each level contains:

an English Reading and Spelling workbook

English Reading Comprehension workbook

English Writing Composition workbook

and an English Vocabulary workbook

For each level, students need to always start with the English Reading and Spelling workbook. Then students can use the Reading Comprehension and Writing Compsoition workbooks at that level to practice their comprehension and writing skills. With the vocabulary workbooks, students review the vocabuary from each particulary level.

Visit our website www.Fisher-Hill.com to learn more about our literacy workbooks and to view our many different teacher resources.