Welcome to our ESL Phonics lesson focusing on short “o” rhyming words. Rhyming is a key phonemic awareness skill that helps students develop reading fluency and phonics comprehension. This lesson is designed to help ESL students recognize, produce, and use rhyming words with the short “o” sound, such as “hot,” “pot,” and “dot.” Through engaging activities and practice exercises, students will enhance their ability to identify and use rhyming words effectively.
ESL Phonics: Lesson Objectives
Enhance Phonemic Awareness: Develop phonemic awareness skills by engaging with rhyming words.
Identify Rhyming Words: Students will learn to recognize words that rhyme with the short “o” sound.
Produce Rhyming Words: Practice creating new rhyming words using the short “o” sound.
Mastering the short vowel “o” sound is an essential step in learning English phonics for ESL students. Explore the resources ESL Phonics section at Stickyball.net to find worksheets, games, and more to support your phonics teaching journey.
The free ESL phonics lesson below introduces sets of rhyming words that are color-coded to help students grasp the concept of rhyming words more easily. This ESL phonics lesson is available for free download, and you can download many more lesson like this in our textbook Phonics Monster: Short Vowels.
