Read these short (o) words in each of the columns. If you need to decode (sound out) these words, remember to “slide” the beginning sound into the vowel sound, then “hook on” the ending sound.
| bob | blob | bot | blot | cop | chop |
| cob | glob | cot | clot | fop | clop |
| gob | slob | dot | plot | hop | crop |
| hob | snob | got | Scot | lop | drop |
| job | stob | hot | shot | mop | flop |
| lob | throb | jot | slot | pop | plop |
| mob | lot | spot | sop | prop | |
| nob | not | stot | top | shop | |
| rob | pot | trot | slop | ||
| sob | rot | stop | |||
| strop | |||||
| dock | block | dog | blog | ||
| hock | chock | fog | frog | bog | clog |
| jock | clock | hog | smog | cog | flog |
| lock | crock | log | jog | grog | |
| mock | flock | slog | |||
| pock | frock | cod | clod | ||
| rock | shock | hod | plod | ||
| sock | smock | nod | scrod | box | |
| tock | stock | pod | shod | cox | |
| rod | trod | fox | |||
| loft | sod | lox | |||
| soft | Tod | pox |
| boss | cross | bong | prong | bond | blond |
| loss | dross | dong | strong | fond | frond |
| moss | floss | gong | thong | pond | |
| toss | gloss | long | throng | ||
| song | romp | chomp | |||
| clomp | |||||
| stomp | |||||
| abscond | crampon | hotbox | sandbox |
| ascot | crisscross | hotshot | shamrock |
| backstop | flattop | jackpot | sitcom |
| birdsong | foxtrot | lapdog | slingshot |
| bobbin | goblin | lockbox | stockpot |
| bobcat | gridlock | nimrod | stopcock |
| bonbon | gumdrop | nonstop | sunblock |
| Boston | hobbit | obstruct | sunspot |
| bottom | hobgoblin | pompom | tomcod |
| cannot | hobnob | pompon | unlock |
| concoct | hockshop | potshot | upshot |
| construct | hodgepodge | robin | wonton |
| crackpot | |||