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| book brook chook cook crook foot good goog goop hood hoof hook koosh look nook oops rook shook shoosh sook soot squoosh stood swoosh took wood woof wool | afoot betook bigfoot booger boogie bookend booker bookie booking bookish booklet boyhood cooker cookery cookie cooking cookoff cookout cooktop footage footed footer footman footpad footsie footy forsook goodbye goodies goodly goody googly hooded hoodie hoodlum hoodwink hookah hooker hookey hookup hooky hooray hotfoot logbook looker looking lookout lookup manhood mistook nooky oompah outlook overlook partook plywood prebook precook rebook recook relook retook rookery rookie skyhook snooty sooty tenterhooks understood unhook withstood whoopee woodcut wooded wooden woodlot woodsman woodsy woodwax woody woofers woofing woollies (US woolies) woolly (US wooly) woomera |
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I was trying to come up with some ‘oo as in hook’ words, longer than one syllable, that would also be useful vocabulary words, and I wondered if you might like to add them to the list:
overlook
understood
withstood
hoodwink
tenterhooks
Thanks, Judith. I have added them. All the very best, Alison
What’s the rule about when oo makes the sounds like took vs. spoon??
There isn’t a hard-and-fast rule, just some typical patterns, and if you get a bunch of words with oo spellings and sort them by sound you’ll be able to see these e.g. the ook words are usually like ‘took’ and the ‘oon’ words are usually like ‘spoon’. I’d recommend firstly working from sound to spelling, though e.g. get lots of words with the vowel sound as in good, put, could, wolf and sort them by spelling, and do the same for words with the vowel as in soon, June, chew, blue etc, and after that flip to the decoding direction and notice that the spelling ‘oo’ is used for both sounds. In some accents, a word will be in one group, and in other accents it’ll be in the other group e.g. the word ‘foot’ in London versus Glasgow. Hope that makes sense. Alison