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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Short Vowels

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners will create a list of short vowel sound words and participate in computer phonics activities to practice. They will read an interactive storybook online. Next, they will complete words in order to better understand short vowel...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Long or Short Vowels?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Vowel letters of the alphabet and the sounds associated with the vowel are the focus of this lesson. Young scholars distinguish between both long and short vowel sounds by reading, writing, speaking, and listening to the words and...
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Worksheet
Have Fun Teaching

Short Vowels

For Students K - 2nd
Early readers use words with short vowels to complete sentences, referencing a word bank. They choose four and five letter words from a word bank like wish, sun, and fast to complete 10 simple sentences. 
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Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin

Lesson 1 - Short Vowels

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Apple, Adam, and At all have something in common. What is it? They all start with the short A sound. The first lesson plan of set in the Word Recognition and Fluency series introduces readers to short vowel sounds with a series of...
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Super Teacher Worksheets

Long and Short Vowel Sounds

For Students K - 2nd
Long and short vowels have never been quite so colorful! Learners use an intricate key to color a grid of words based on the vowel sound they hear. Red is the long a sound, light blue is the short u sound, etc. By the time they've...
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Activity
Spelling Words Well

Slip It In!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Bad, bid, bed. Jib, jab, job. Kids practice building short-vowel words with a game that challenges them to provide the missing short vowel in the provided word card.
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Printables
Progressive Phonics

Short Vowel “A”

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Support your phonics instruction with this beginner reading book that focuses on the short vowel /a/. The book is divided into four chapters based on the word families at, ad, an, and am. Letters and words used are c, a, t, s, m, n, d,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel A: Circle and Print

For Students 1st - 2nd
Study the letter a and the sounds it makes. With this worksheet, youngsters focus on the short vowel a sound like in bad, fat, and ran. Then, they read the words in the blue box, identifying which ones use the short vowel a sound. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel Sound

For Students K - 1st
Use this creative way to review words that have short vowel sounds. Learners read a word and then identify the words in the group that have the same vowel sound. It is a motivating way to have learners explore this topic.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel Sounds

For Students 1st - 2nd
Some vowels make the same sound, like the vowels in grow and both. Read the words on the left hand side of the page (there are six) and match them to a similarly sounding word on the right hand side. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Missing Short Vowels

For Students K - 2nd
Younger learners can practice reading and spelling words with short vowel sounds using this resource. They fill in the blanks to form simple words like bag, bed, and fox. With only twelve questions, this resource could be used as a quick...
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Curated OER

Vowel Sounds: e

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
"Eh?" That is the short vowel sound the letter e makes when it is used in the middle of a word. Little ones will draw a line between the letter e and objects that make the short e sound. Then they will fill in the missing e in six...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Vowel Picture Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Sound sorting can be a fun way to get little ones phonologically prepared for a life of reading. In this activity, learners sort picture cards based on the long or short vowel sound they make when said aloud.
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Worksheet
Kelly's Kindergarten

Kelly's Kindergarten: Short /u/ Sound Words

For Students K - 1st Standards
From hugs to the sun, you can find many great words with the short /u/ sound! Your youngsters will do just that with this worksheet, in which they identify words with the short /u/ sound from a selection of provided images, and then...
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Workbook
Kathryn J. Davis

Abridged Short Vowel Spelling Workbook

For Students K - 2nd
Find 50 pages of worksheets to help emerging readers practice short vowel sounds using pictures, simple sentences, and word matching. They focus on CVC and two-letter words with short vowels. 
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Activity
Kiz Club

Phonics Floor Game: Short Vowels

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Turn your phonics instruction into a game! First, hop on to word family foot prints to match the short vowel sound cards. Then, take the game to the next level; write a word on the foot print that has the same word family sound. 
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Worksheet
Progressive Phonics

Short Vowel “A” Activity Worksheets

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
24 activities make up this phonics activity book that focuses on the short vowel /a/.  Early readers take part in tracing, filling in the blanks, coloring, finding differences in pictures, and completing mazes while using letters s, r,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel A: Words That Do Not Rhyme

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this short A words worksheet, learners read 15 words in a box that all have the vowel A. Students circle and then write all the short vowel words.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel Sounds: Listening Exercise

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this CVC pattern words learning exercise, learners examine eight pictures, say the name of each picture, and use the provided letters to spell the words. Pupils also write a sentence using as many of the eight words as they can.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel Sounds

For Students 1st
In this short vowel worksheet, 1st graders will focus on reading CVC words. Students will study 6 pictures and choose the correct word from the word box to write on the dotted lines beneath each picture.
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PPT
Curated OER

Vowels

For Teachers K - 3rd
Once viewed in slideshow mode, this presentation shows nine interactive slides about short vowel sounds. Within these slides, there are seven questions asking viewers if they hear a short vowel sound in a list of words. A check mark pops...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel Sounds: Listening Exercise

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this CVC pattern words worksheet, learners examine eight pictures, say the name of each picture, and use the provided letters to spell the words. They practice writing the letters on the line below the picture as well. Letter...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Short Vowel Movements

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils use gestures to recognize the short vowel sounds.  In this cvc lesson, students use a cue to recognize the vowel sound.  Pupils practice various words with the cues. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Washer Vowels

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Here is a perfect activity for all your kinesthetic learners. They practice long and short vowel discrimination as they hang out the paper articles of clothing on a clothes line. They each take turns pulling word clothes out of a pretend...