Designed by Paula
Edited by Chris
This collection of free short o words worksheets includes a range of fun activities and challenges to keep students engaged in their learning.
Short o words is usually introduced in Kindergarten.
All the worksheets are designed to be printed onto A4 paper. Make sure you select the “shrink to fit” option when printing to avoid any cut-offs on your print.
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Common Core© Aligned Learning Outcomes
These worksheets partially or fully address the following Common Core© learning outcomes:
Kindergarten
RF.K.3.B: Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
Free Short O Words Worksheets
Designed by Paula
Difficulty: 🔥🔥🔥
This worksheet requires students to identify the short-o word based on the image in each box. Students can find the word in the word library at the bottom in order to help scaffold their learning. This is the black-and-white version for saving ink while printing.
Designed by Paula
Difficulty: 🔥🔥🔥
This worksheet requires students to identify the short-o word based on the image in each box. Students can find the word in the word library at the bottom in order to help scaffold their learning. This is the color version of the previous piece.
Designed by Paula
Difficulty: 🔥
For this version, students don’t need to trace or write words – instead they look at the image and try to find the correct word to match it on the right. Students draw lines between each image and its corresponding word. Encourage students to say each word out loud.
Designed by Paula
Difficulty: 🔥
This is the same as the previous version, where students need to draw lines from the images to the words. However, it’s in black-and-white to save ink while printing.
Designed by Paula
Difficulty: 🔥🔥
This is a letter tracing version, where the word and image are already provided. Students simply practice tracing the words within the horizontal tracing lines. This is an easier version you can provide at the beginning of a unit to ease students into the idea of short o words.
Designed by Paula
Difficulty: 🔥🔥🔥
In this version, students must write the full word without dot-tracing letters. The word library at the top is provided to help students identify the word that matches the image.
Designed by Paula
Difficulty: 🔥
For this version, students are provided with the image and four possible short-o words to match to the image. Students need to read all four words then decide which word matches the image. They can then color the box with the correct word in it.
Designed by Paula
Difficulty: 🔥🔥
For this version, students need to color the correct letters out of a range of options in order to “spell” the word that matches the iamge. This is a good bridge between drawing lines between words and images, and having to write the letters yourself.
Designed by Paula
Difficulty: 🔥🔥
This is the same as the previous version, but is (mostly) in black-and-white if you’d prefer to save ink while printing.
Designed by Paula
Difficulty: 🔥🔥🔥
In this version, students are provided the images and the letters for the word that matches the image – but the letters are scrambled! Students will need to unscramble the letters then write the word.
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