Free printable word families o phonics worksheets. Four practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, and rapid naming chart.
Grade: KPhase 1: FoundationsPattern: CVC word families: -ot, -op, -og
dotgothotlotnotpotrotcophopmoppoptop
1 Decodable Reading Passage
A short, decodable story embedding word families o words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.
Kim's Garden Pot
Skill: Word Families O • Sight Words: the, is, a, and, to, was
Kim had a red pot. She did want to put a green bud. But the pot had stiff mud. Kim did not have a rod to dig.
Kim saw her dog, Rob. Rob ran to a big log. He had a red cog. It had a black dot. It was not a ball. It was a stiff cog.
"Oh, Rob!" Kim said. "That cog can help!"
Kim ran to Rob. She got the cog. She put the cog in the mud. She dug a lot. Soon, a small pit was in the pot. Kim put the green bud in the pit. "Good dog, Rob!" Kim said. Rob gave a hop.
Circle or highlight all the CVC words in the story. Can you sort them by their vowel sound?
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2 Word Sort
Cut out the word cards and sort them into the correct columns: -ot / -op Family vs -og Family.
-ot / -op Family
-og Family
dot
got
hot
lot
not
pot
rot
cop
hop
mop
pop
top
bog
cog
dog
fog
hog
jog
log
tog
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3 Phrasing Practice Cards
Practice reading these phrases for fluency. Cut out the cards and read them quickly and smoothly.
the dot on got
a got in hot
the hot and lot
a lot with not
the not on pot
a pot in rot
the rot and cop
a cop with hop
the hop on mop
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4 RAN Chart (Rapid Naming)
Read each word in the grid as quickly as you can. Time yourself and try to beat your best time!
Decodable RAN Chart — Word Families O
bog
dot
not
bog
bog
hog
dot
hop
dot
dot
hog
not
hop
hog
hop
not
Target words: dot, not, hop, bog, hog
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📖 Decodable Readers
Printable mini-books for Word Families O practice. Each reader includes a story + coloring page illustration.
These free word families (-ot, -op, -og) provide structured phonics practice aligned with the Science of Reading. Activities include a decodable passage embedding target words in a fun story, a word sort activity, phrasing practice cards for fluency building, and a rapid naming (RAN) chart for automaticity. Each worksheet prints cleanly on standard US Letter paper.