Read and Spell Phonemes: oo

A phoneme is a unit of sound. The short 'oo' phoneme sounds like this:

book

We call it the short 'oo' phoneme because the same two letters also make the long 'oo' phoneme, as in the word 'boot'.

In this activity, you can practise reading and spelling words with the short 'oo' phoneme in them.

Let's have a go!

Note

If you live in some parts of Britain you may say some of these words with the long 'oo' phoneme and not the short 'oo' phoneme.