Vowel Lesson Plans

Learners will create a list of short vowel sound words and participate in computer phonics activities to practice short vowel sounds. They will read an interactive storybook online and complete words giving the vowel to understand short vowel sounds.

Get those kids ready to read with increased phonemic awareness! Children in grades K-2 will participate in a variety of stimulating activities to practice sounding out, identifying, and reading simple cvc words. Pupils will sign, sing, read, and write short vowel sounds, then put it all together by playing the game Word Maker. The thinking that went into this lesson is amazing! Perfect for Special Ed.

Help your class recognize the capital and lower-case forms of the five vowels. They will learn how to make capital and lower-case forms of the vowels and all the rules surrounding vowels. Fun songs and activities are included. Links to the songs and lyrics are also available.

Students identify short vowel sounds.  In this vowel sounds instructional activity, students play the popular game Twister using short vowel sound cards in place of the Twister mat.  Printable short vowel sound cards are included in this instructional activity.

Help learners determine the beginning sounds in words and determine which vowel belongs in words. They will interact with a PowerPoint presentation in order to determine the vowel that goes with each word. They then play a game with letter tiles.

Students identify long vowel sounds. For this long vowel lesson, students listen to a read aloud of a book that contains many long vowel words before accessing a variety of Clifford online stories and activities. They play a hopscotch game using long vowels.

Students practice long and short vowel sounds. In this grammar lesson, students participate in a "Wheel of Fortune" game where they complete a phrase using vowels.  Students also participate in a short vowel sound sing-along.

Students identify the vowel letters of the alphabet and the sounds associated with the vowel. They distinguish between both long and short vowel sounds by reading, writing, speaking, and listening to the words and sounds. Using Crayola Overwriter markers they color-code long and short vowels in their favorite words.

First graders visit a website to identify rhyming words with long vowel sounds through a poem, "Meet the Creeps." They chose a poem and read orally to the class finding the rhyming words in their poems.

First graders learn and practice vowel sounds. In this phonics lesson, 1st graders learn a new vowel sound and practice saying it correctly.  Students learn how to identify a talking vowel and create sentences that incorporate the targeted vowel sound.