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131+ Long O Vowel Sound Words (Free Printable List)

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Learn about the five ways to spell the long o sound: o, o-e, oa, ow, and oe. You’ll also get two lists of 131 long o sound words, organized by spelling pattern and syllable type.

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Table of Contents

• All About Long O
• Long O Word List
• Multisensory Spelling
• Related Posts
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All About Long O

It’s so important to teach students the long vowel rule: Long vowels say their name!

• Long a says /ā/ like acorn.
• Long e says /ē/ like equal.
• Long i says /ī/ like ice.
• Long o says /ō/ like ocean.
• Long u says /yoo/ like unicorn, OR /oo/ like ruler.

Teaching students all the different ways to spell and recognize long vowel sounds will help them become much more independent and confident readers!

There are 5 ways to spell Long O:

1. o like no.
2. o-e like home.
3. oa like boat.
4. ow like bow.
5. oe like toe.

The long vowel O sound can be heard at the beginning (open), middle (pony), or end of a word (no). Long O sound can be spelled with a silent e (VCe pattern), a vowel team, in an open syllable, or in a closed syllable exception.

It’s important that children are familiar with the spelling patterns for long vowel O and can read and spell them with accuracy. Be sure you follow a scope and sequence that will introduce each one of the spellings in an order that makes sense and builds upon previously taught skills. Recipe for Reading is a great one to follow.

We hope these lists are helpful resources as you teach your students the different ways to read and spell long O.

Long O Word List

👉 Scroll to the bottom of this post for a FREE printable comprehensive word list with 131 long O sound words!

O – Open Syllable Words & Wild, Old Words

O says its long sound in an open syllable (a syllable that ends in a vowel). This can be a one-syllable word like no or a multisyllabic syllable word like volcano.

O will also say its long sound in closed syllable exceptions or rule breaker words. Some refer to these as Wild, Old Words.

These include some one-syllable words that end in -old, -olt, -ond, and -ost.

O-E Words (Long O with Silent E)

These words include long O that follow the VCe pattern (vowel-consonant-e), specifically o-e. They can also be called Magic E Words or Silent E Words.

The job of the E is to stay silent and make the O say its name. This spelling pattern is used at the end of root words.

OA – Vowel Team

This vowel team follows the old jingle you probably learned as a kid: “When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking. ”

👉 Please don’t teach your students this as a ‘rule’ because it actually only works about 35% of the time (meaning it’s not true 65% of the time).

Instead, it works in this instance, when the two vowels come together to make the long vowel ō sound.

OW – Vowel Team

The vowel team OW is used at the end of a root word. It can also be used before the letter L or N like in bowl or grown. In this vowel team, the W functions as a vowel.

OW is also a diphthong used in the word cow. These phonograms ow/ow look exactly the same, so the reader must rely on context to know which sound to apply. For example:

• The star of the show took a bow at the end of the play.
• The girl wore a big bow in her hair.

OE – Vowel Team

Only a few words in English use this vowel team (about 15 in total). Don’t spend too much time on this vowel team since its frequency is so minimal. Included on this list are the ones kids will likely encounter and need to know.

Words with Vowel Team OE: toe, Joe, hoe, doe, foe, woe, goes, aloe, oboe, tiptoe, mistletoe

Multisensory Spelling

Make it multisensory by incorporating sand, salt, or sugar spelling! Every time you introduce a new spelling pattern, kids add a grid to the cookie tray.

Incorporate Simultaneous Oral Spelling (SOS) where children say the letters as they write them. This engages 4 of the 5 senses and makes the spelling patterns stick. Eventually, students will progress until they can write all five ways to spell the Long O sound.

In this video you’ll see that this student has learned the first four ways to spell long O. Once the last spelling pattern is introduced, he will then add a grid to and write the five ways to spell long O.

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Lesson 1: Phonetic Transcription Basics

Lesson 1: Phonetic Transcription Basics

There are 33 letters (graphemes) in the Russian alphabet, which can be divided into consonants and vowels. Each grapheme has its own sound form, called phoneme , which may have other variants (allophones).

The consonants are generated by a jet of air passing through the vocal cords, causing them to vibrate, which forms clear sound (tone). This tone is further modified in the oral and nasal cavities, in which there are obstructions and noise occurs. Consonants can be divided by voiced (in addition to noise, they also contain tone) and voiceless (contain only noise). Further, we divide the consonants into hard and soft . In Russian, there are 15 steam hard and soft consonants, 3 consonants are always hard - these are “sh”, “zh” and “c” and 3 consonants always soft "h", "u" and "y". In total, we distinguish 36 consonant phonemes.

Vowels are also formed during the passage of a jet of air through the vocal cords, in this case a tone is formed, which is modified in the nasal and oral cavities, but in the absence of obstructions, so that a pure tone is maintained. There are 6 vowel phonemes in Russian: |a|, |e|, |u|, |s|, |o|, |y| , which have their own variants - allophones, depending on the position of the vowel in relation to the stress in the word.

Russian accent free, movable. It can be on any syllable in a word, it is not constant and in one word it can be on different syllables, for example. window - windows, city-cities.

Russian stress is strong, dynamic, the substressed vowel qualitatively and quantitatively is much stronger than the unstressed, which pronounced much weaker. The weakening of unstressed vowels is called reduction and 2 degrees of reduction are distinguished.

Russian vowels in relation to stress can be divided into:

• 3 - percussion (strong, dynamic, long)

• 2 - first pre-shock (1 reduction stage)

• 1 - more than the first pre-shock and post-shock (2nd degree of reduction).

Pronunciation table of Russian vowels and their recording in transcription

Vowels after consonants:

Grapheme	Phoneme	Options	vs.	positions in a word
		3	2 9] at the end of a word	['b]
e	| 'e|	['e']	['and]	['b]
e	|' o|	['ó]	–	–
e	|e|	[e']	[s]	[b]
at	|y|	[ý]	[y]	[y]
	|'y|	['ý]	['y]	['y]
and	|'and|	['and'], [s]	['and], [s]	[' and], [s]
s	|s|	[s]	[s]	[s]

Transcription of some consonants:

Exercise

Exercise 1.

Read and rewrite in transcriptions:

Moms, Bábushka, Milkó, Knight, Pine, Superments, Crocodes and L, Chocher, Shark, Laughter, Gorod, Young, General and , saying, mash and on, brownie, contract, school, frying pan, open s tka, stop, aroma, car and l.

Tree, knee, birch, girl, spring, business, timber truck, translation, phone, tele and zor, inspector, director, serial, furniture, attic, suitcase, man, d i ya, aunt, salary and nya.

Apple, Yantars, Yaponia, I On, Yaroslv, Yaz s K, I MA, I , Foundation, Jan Resague, I SNA, EURPA, ELENA, éva, EG and pet European0007 south zhny, yulá, south rmala, south burden, south , southwestern, Yugoslavia, yuvel and r.

Seven i , trees, mo i , green, Tat i na, comma, d i con, Dar i , Mar and i, i, o her, bad weather, happiness, health, move out, move in, go, yours yu , from and new, I do, my yu , Ra and sa, Zina and yes, my and , my and , operations, laboratories.

ride, work out, bathe, dress, study and , wash, contract and he smiles, she is shy and is gone.

Key

Exercise 1.2

Rewrite in transcription:

Today after the lessons we will go to the park.

Mo and genus and tel hot i t go to the sea in Er and pet.

Boys play ice hockey in winter.

Father and son will go fishing together tomorrow.

Our aunt and d and from Prague will come to visit us.

What time do you have and on your watch?

I want to go boating on our lake.

Who did their homework without osh 9s':e ṷ n]

Key

Literature

The lesson was prepared using the following literature:

Theoretical part

[1]Oliverius, Z. Phonetics of the Russian language. Praha: SPN, 1978. 164 p.

[2] Bryzgunova, E. A. Sounds and intonations of Russian speech. Moscow: Russian language, 1977. 279 p.

Practical part

[1]Barkhudarova, E.L. – Pankov, F.I. In Russian with good pronunciation. Practical course of sounding speech. Moscow: Russian language, 2008. 192 s. ISBN 978-5-88337-160-7.

[2] Odintsova, I. V. Sounds. Rhythm. Intonation. Moscow: Nauka, 2008. 368 p. ISBN 978-5-02-002762-6.

[3]Lizalova, LI Exercises in phonetics of the modern Russian language. Brno: MU, 1991. 78 p.

Vowels. Vowel distribution. Ruin. Pronunciation.

Lesson 2: Vowels. Vowel distribution. Ruin. Pronunciation.

Vowels from an articulatory point of view are characterized by tension and vibration of the vocal cords and free passage through mouth cavity outward, from an acoustic point of view, a relatively narrow band of each of the formants and a slight attenuation (vowels almost pure tones), from a functional point of view, they are characterized by a syllable function (vowels become a sonorant center syllable).

The quality of vowel sounds depends on the position of the tongue, which, rising, divides the oral cavity into two resonator cavities, corresponding to the first two formants of vowels (labialization - the first of these two resonator cavities is lengthened).

When articulating low vowels, the lower jaw is lowered more than when pronouncing mid and high vowels.

The characterization of vowel articulation must also be supplemented with data on the work of the lips. The substressed vowels [y] and [o] are pronounced with a strong labialization in almost all positions. Especially strong after labials, for example, in the word work, and after labial consonants |in| - |f|, for example: Vóva, form.

System of vowel phonemes

Czech language has 10 vowel phonemes of monophthong character:| i |, | e |, | a |, | o |, u | and their long variants, to which adjoin 3 diphthongic phonemes: | eu |, | au |, | ou |.

Positional variants of individual Czech phonemes are very close to each other, the difference between |a| under stress and without stress is negligible.

Some linguists (for example, Shcherba, Matusevich, Gvozdev, etc. ) believe that the Russian language has six vowel phonemes: |a|, |e|, |o|,|y|, |u|,|s|. They consider |and| and |s| two different phonemes. But other linguists (for example, Reformatsky, Panov, Romportl etc.) consider |and| and |s| allophones of one phoneme, which depend only on the softness or hardness of the previous consonant. We we will consider them different, i.e. in Russian there are 6 main vowel phonemes.

Positional variants (allophones) of Russian vowel phonemes are very diverse. Depending on the place of stress and the degree of reduction, on the one hand, and the hardness-softness of the previous and following consonant, on the other hand, the implementation of vowels changes significantly phonemes of RY. This follows from the strength of Russian dynamic stress and from significant accommodation (adjustment of vowels to consonants). The influence of neighboring consonants on vowels in PR is very strong. Vowels move strongly forward after soft consonants and move back back after hard consonants. This applies not only to the phoneme | and |, but to all vowels: all have soft and hard variants.

General difficulties in setting Russian vowels

When mastering the pronunciation of Russian vowels by Czechs, three main types of difficulties are noted:

1. vowel labialization difficulties

2. Difficulties arising from assimilation of vowels to neighboring soft or hard consonants

3. Difficulties related to dynamics and rhythm.

Exercise

Exercise 2.1

Read, pay attention to the pronunciation of [a], [o], [y], [e] under stress, at the beginning of a word, after hard consonants and after vowels

[a]: a, yes, like, class, so, fact, sign, composition, signal, right, different, vowel, knowledge, consonant, longitude, mother, dialogue, radiator, paper, hour s , sentry, often, sorrel.

[o]: oh, he, syllable, who, what, gender, word, form, air, radio, battalion, prim, Chop, lesson, question, what, such, number, face, letter, metro, cocoon, chocolate, short.

[y]: y, letter, group, learned and k, udav, verbally, lips, forelock, cheek, joke, around, science, structure, culture, figure, sculpture, chichelo, arm, muk paýk, pout and on.

[e]: this, this, this, floor, crew, mayor, sir, city hall, poet, poem, poet international.

Exercise 2.2

Opposition [and] and [s], read, write as a dictation zab and t - zab s t, bill - true story, M and la - m s la, mi - we, m and scale - m s scale, view - in s water, type - you, style - joint, water and - water s , court and - Court of s , COS and - COS s , with and LA - cheese, gift and - gift of s , mountains and - mountains , pairs and - Crimea.

[i]: i, i ma, i , i blocko, Japan, mo i , tvo i , seven i , with and announcing and I tiya, occupation i tiya, i sleepy, yaz s k, red, weekly, Tat i on, i turf, drink i healthy.

[e]: Eva, éhat, édit, Elena, Europe, enter, exit, Fri and whose, health, happiness, from and her, green, vowels, stress, meaning, division, knowledge, action, decision.

[ё]: hedgehog, Christmas tree, yours, mine, reception, volume, we will break, we will beat, we will sew, we will water.

[Yu]: South, Yu Zhny, Yu BKA, NO Y , NOV, UNLE U , Sure Y , and Nyu, Kr A Snyaya, Segomatyahnaya.

[i]: mo and , tvo and , svo and , ra and sa, A and yes, Zina and yes, the least, the same and native.

Exercise 2.4

Rewrite in transcriptions

LAMPA, BOMAGA, SMA, SPU, Cards and On, Order, Sticking, Quaras, Governing, Kanagl, Skolnnik, Molokov, Samokhov, Under the Power, Cut, Hygot, Seekhot, Sinim conquer and t, young, bench i , seven i , vy i ha, sews, dress, jam, biscuits, roots, monkey i on, sunday, shooting.

Key

Literature

The lesson was prepared using the following literature:

Theoretical part

[1]Oliverius, Z.

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