Short O Words for Kids: Hop, Pot and Dog (Kindergarten and Grade 1 English)

Hi, I'm Luna from DoodleBeez. Today we are learning the short o sound. Open your mouth wide like you are at the doctor and say ah. That is the sound short o makes, like in hop.

Let's blend a word. Puh, o, tuh. Put the sounds together. Pot! The letter o sits in the middle between two consonants. That pattern often gives us the short o sound.

Here are more short o words. Dog. Log. Fox. Box. Mop. Top. Say each one and listen for that open o sound in the middle.

Rhyming words can help. If you can read hop, change the first letter to make new words. Hop, mop, top, pop. Only the first sound changes. The op ending stays the same.

Another family is ot. Hot, pot, dot and cot all end the same way. Can you hear the short o in each one? Hot. Pot. Dot. Cot.

Listen carefully, because o and u can sound close. Hot has short o. Hut has short u. Mop has short o. Map has short a. Open wide for o!

Now it's your turn. Which word has the short o sound? Sock, sack or sick? Pause and try. The answer is sock. Sss, o, kuh. Sock has short o in the middle.

Great job! Remember, short o sounds like the o in hop, pot and dog. Open wide and listen for it in the middle. Practice short o words in the English Lab at doodlebeez.com. See you next time!