[upbeat music] [frog croaking] [frog croaking] - Oh, hi, friends!

I was just thinking about my favorite season.

You know, spring, summer, fall, winter.

What's your favorite season?

Really?

That's awesome.

I love summer.

You know, because during summer time it's really hot, you can go swimming, and my favorite thing is to watch little frogs kind of hop all over the place.

They're like the cutest little things ever.

Hey, you noticed how frog and hop have kind of that same middle sound?

Yeah, listen carefully.

Frog and hop.

Huh, well how convenient is that, because today the sound we're going to be focusing on is actually that ah sound.

Do you know what letter represents that ah sound?

It's the letter O.

Today we're going to focus on short O ah.

Before we get to work, let's get our ears ready and listen to some sounds.

Let's do some on set fluency practice.

So what's gonna happen is I'm gonna say a word.

I want you to repeat the word and then tell me what is the first sound you hear in the word, the on set, the beginning sound.

So for example if I said the word bat, you would say bat, and then you would tell me that first sound in bat, which is buh.

Okay?

Let's try another one together.

What's the first sound we hear in the word happy?

You would say happy, huh.

Are we ready?

Let's do this.

What's the first sound you hear in the word candle?

Candle, kuh.

Awesome.

What is the first sound you hear in the word table?

Table, tuh.

Very nice.

What's the first sound you hear in the word baker?

Baker, buh.

Beautiful.

How about what is the first sound you hear in the word jungle?

That's right, jungle, juh.

Okay, what's the first sound you hear in the word garden?

Garden, guh.

All right, last one, what is the first sound you hear in the word listen?

Excellent, listen, ull.

Before we make some words, let's review our sounds.

I'm gonna show you a letter card, I want you to tell me the name of the letter and then the sound that it represents, okay?

So what is this letter?

H. What sound does it represent?

Huh.

What's the letter?

C. What sound does it represent?

Cuh.

What's the letter?

T. And what sound does it represent?

Tuh.

What's the letter?

B.

What sound does it represent?

Buh.

What's the letter?

G. And what sound does it represent?

Guh.

All right, last one, what's the letter name?

L. And what sound does it represent?

Ull, that's right, give your brain a kiss.

Awesome job.

All right, let's start building some words.

Our letter for today is O.

And we're going to focus on its short sound, which is ah, like octopus.

Say ah, ah, octopus.

Great.

We hear the short O sound in the middle of many words like knot, cot, cob, and rod.

O makes the short sound because it's like it's closed in, like a closed syllable, so the vowel can't say its full name, so it's saying its short sound, ah.

Repeat again, ah, ah, octopus.

Awesome.

All right, before we start building our words, let me see if you can actually hear that short ah sound in words.

If the word I say has an ah in it, you're gonna give me a thumbs up.

If it doesn't, thumbs down.

Let's see how you do.

Hot.

That's right, hot does have the ah sound in the middle.

How about the word pet?

Nope.

How about the word rot?

Mm-hmm.

How about the word bet?

How about the word cat?

No fooling you.

All right, last one, how about the word rod?

All right, let's start with our first word, hot.

What sound do we hear in the beginning of hot?

Huh, huh.

Okay, that's one of the sounds we practiced at the beginning, so that's going to be represented by our letter H. Huh, so huh, ah, now we need the tuh.

What letter represented that tuh sound?

That's right, it was the letter T. Okay, let's blend through this word, huh, ot.

Little faster, hot.

Read it, hot.

Okay, now how would we turn hot into cot?

Like a little bed you can sleep on.

Hmm, which sound is changing?

Hot, cot.

Oh, I feel the difference in the beginning, so I'm not gonna need the huh anymore, I'm gonna need the letter that represents kuh.

Let's blend it.

Cuh, ot.

Little faster, cot.

Read it, cot.

All right, how would I turn cot in cob?

Like corn on the cob.

Mm, a really good summer time meal.

Okay, let's see which sound is changing?

Cot, cob.

Oh, definitely at the end.

So we're gonna get rid of the tuh, and I need to put the letter that represents buh.

That's right, I need my B.

Let's blend it, kuh, ob.

Faster, cob.

Read it, cob.

All right, how would I turn cob into job?

Think about where we're feeling the difference in our mouths.

Cob, job.

That's right, in the beginning.

So we're gonna remove the kuh, and we're gonna add the letter that represents juh.

That's right, J.

One of my favorite letters.

All right, let's blend it, juh, ob.

Job.

Read it, job.

All right, how do we turn job into jog?

Like let's go for a little run.

All right, where do we feel the difference?

Job, jog.

Did you feel it at the end too?

Yep, you're right.

So which letter represents that guh sound?

You got it, G. Let's blend it, juh, og.

Little faster, jog.

Read it, jog.

All right, how would we turn jog into bog?

Like a swampy kind of area.

That's right, we feel the change in the beginning, so we're gonna get rid of the juh, and we're gonna add...

Awesome, our buh, and we turned it into... Let's blend it, buh, og.

Little faster, buh, og.

Read it, bog.

All right, challenge question, how would we turn bog into blog?

Oh!

So buh, oh, blog.

Where do we feel the difference.

Yeah, you kind of feel it after the buh, right?

So what do we feel?

Let's see, buh, ull.

Ooh, what letter is gonna represent that ull sound?

Yeah!

So I'm going to slide over my B and I'm gonna add that ull.

Let's blend this together.

Buh, ull, og.

Little faster, blog.

Read it, blog.

Awesome job.

Thank you so much for working with me today on our short O sound, which is?

That's right, everyone say ah, ah, octopus.

Well, until next time, bye!