Heart Words come, some, done

Read three words where o says /u/ and the e stays quiet.

'Come', 'some', and 'done' look like 'home' and 'bone', but they don't sound like them. In these three words, the o says /u/, as in 'up', and the e at the end doesn't change it. So we say 'kum', 'sum', and 'dun'.

They rhyme with each other: come, some, and done all end in /um/ or /un/. Read: 'Come and have some soup when you are done. ' A trick: if you read 'come' as 'kome', ask yourself if that's a real word. It isn't, so switch to the /u/ sound.

• 1In 'come', 'some', 'done', o says /u/.
• 2The e does not make the o long.
• 3If it isn't a real word, try another sound.