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Long Vowel U Sounds
This worksheet is straight-forward and easy to follow. Have your young learners look at the words below and place them in the correct category. Does the word have the ew letter combination or a u and silent e combination? For you very...
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Phonics: Long U
In this long u worksheet, students look at six pictures, pronounce each one, connect the letters that spell each picture and then write the word two times on the lines provided.
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Long Vowel Sounds
Build reading skills, phonemic awareness, or spelling strategies with this super handy presentation. Each slide contains several variations of a long vowel sound and multiple examples of each. This is a great tool to have around,...
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Long "u" With Silent "e" Printing Practice Worksheet
In this long "u" with a silent "e" printing practice activity, student trace 8 words, read them, and match them to black line pictures. They print words such as flute, rule, and tune.
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Long "u" With Silent "e" Reading Activity
For this writing and spelling worksheet, students circle pictures of long "u" with silent "e" words that are included in 3 short paragraphs. They complete 3 examples.
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OO (Long U) Wordsearch (nwb)
In this word search learning exercise, students spell words with 'oo' letters to complete the word search puzzle. Students list the long u sound words on the back of the learning exercise.
National Institute for Literacy
Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling
Go over digraphs, vowel sounds, and affixes with a series of decoding and spelling lessons. Each lesson guides learners through a different reading and phonics skill, building on the lesson before, and challenging them with each step.
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Long u With Silent e Writing Activities
For this long u with silent e writing worksheet, 1st graders look at 5 pictures, say their names, write them or make sentences with the words. They draw 2 pictures of items that are named using the spelling pattern.
Core Knowledge Foundation
First Grade Skills Unit 2
Nineteen lessons make-up a four-week-long unit that explores long vowel sounds, nouns, and 11 high-frequency words. Lessons scaffold information to gain confidence in reading a decodable text and answering questions. Routines include...
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'EW' Long U Wordsearch
In this word search activity, students practice spelling words containing 'ew' or the long 'u' sound. Students complete the word search to find the 'ew' words.
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Are You a Super Sign Speler or Speller?
Why is spelling important? Develop your class' spelling skills. They examine examples of homonyms, heteronyms, and creative spelling. They also photograph misspellings in the real world in order to discover the importance of spelling...
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Fun with Word Shapes
In this word shapes worksheet, students put words into the word shapes above and below the center line. Students put 16 words into the word shapes on 3 pages.
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The oo Sounds
Investigate spelling patterns that make the /oo/ sound in this labeling worksheet. Scholars read a brief introduction explaining the different vowel pairings that make the long /oo/ sound, along with word examples. Then, they write words...
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Worksheet Set: Super Phonics Level 2
Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...
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Word Recognition
Students recognize and spell color and shape words. In this color and shape words lesson plan, students reinforce their vocabulary and spelling skills.
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We Flew With a Baboon
More vowels? Elementary schoolers recognize how vowel patterns change a short vowel sound into a long vowel sound. With an emphasis on the /oo/ that makes the long U sound, kids identify the phoneme and letter combination through...
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Short e, Long e Spelling Activity
In this spelling activity worksheet, students rewrite the words with short e and long e sounds on the lines. Students spell 20 words.
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Peachy Teacup by the Stream
Help your kids distinguish between the sounds for short vowel /e/ and long vowel /e/. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on /ea/. They practice reading and spelling a...
Spelling Words Well
Slip It In!
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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Sound the Foghorn
Young scholars complete a variety of activities related to the long /u/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter U. Students then listen to pairs of words and identify which word contains the long...
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'Ay' Word Search
In this word search worksheet, students find the hidden 'ay' words in the word search puzzle. Students use the word bank to locate the 20 words.
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Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch
Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness lesson plan, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Students...
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Boom Chicka Boom
Learners recognize how vowel patterns change a short vowel sound into a long vowel sound. With an emphasis on the /oo/ that makes the long U sound, students identify the phoneme and letter combination through listening and matching...
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Bo Knows "O"
Students are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e patter that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They distinguish between the short vowel o and long vowel o. Students practice reading and spelling words with the...