Letter O Lessons

Literacy Center Ideas:

  • Letter O mini-book (included)
  • Letter O worksheets (included)
  • CVC Mini Book- Short O (Included)
  • Letter O Mini Book (included)
  • Octopus Activities (included)
  • Letter O lesson plan activities (included ) (Includes octopus and Oliver activities)
  • Spot and Dot the Letter O

All of the activities included above can be bought in our store/(You may use your account funds to pay for these lessons!)

Story Time Ideas:

  • Read Oliver, and Octopus is Amazing and My Very Own Octopus and do the activities that correspond with those books: For An Octopus is Amazing, talk about nonfiction books.  Do a KWL, and Can, Has, Is activity as you learn about octopi.  You can also watch youtube videos on Octopus and write about all that you learn!
  • For My Very Own Octopus, have the student imagine what life would be like if they had an octopus. Do a writing prompt (included) once the children brainstorm and talk about their ideas.
  • Read Oliver by Syd Hoff and and talk about character, setting and plot. What happens in the beginning, middle, end?  (Activities included in the Letter O activity pack.

Writing Center Ideas:

  • Continue talking and working on plot –what happens in the beginning, middle, end. Make a chart to outline what happens and have students write about this.
  • Creative write about what it would be like to won an octopus.
  • Work on good sentence formation, and then building sentences to form a paragraph.

Other Ideas:

  • For the short letter O, tell each student that the sound the short O makes is like when you go to the Doctor’s office and he says Open up and say Ooooooo. The students can practice/pretend one is a doctor and the other says oooooo.
  • Glue cheerio “o” onto a plate
  • Do this Octopus Craft: http://www.sightandsoundreading.com/craft-to-teach-short-o-sound/   – you can do it for the short o sound, or just O words or find pictures from a magazine that being with O and paste them onto it.
  • Make a necklace by lacing Os
  • Create a picture from in the shape of an O using buttons or Os –have the student put a picture inside the circle.
  • Make Owl fingerprint craft
  • Cut/decorate an octagon
  • Oval
  • Olaf
  • Otter
  • Make an ocean scene
  • Make a list of letter O words together