Now here is a great set of activities that will make learning about long vowel sounds a snap. The activities cover two days and include vowel identification, reading, and several great games. Kids will hunt for long vowel words, play...

Keep things short and sweet for your young learners with a simple long vowel activity. Presented with four long vowel words with the vowels missing, children must correctly identify and write in the letters that complete...

Kindergartners will cut, paste, and label the words that contain a short or long e sound. They can build their phonemic awareness as they say each word to determine which e goes where.

Here is a great way for learners to practice identifying sounds made by both short and long vowels. This lesson stresses the a_e=/A/ correspondence along with letterboxes. They read their spelled words, whole text selection and...

In this vowel sounds worksheet, students place an X through bubbles whose words contain short vowel sounds and circle those with long vowel sounds.

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...

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.

Need some fun activities to augment your lessons on vowel patterns and phonemic awareness? Peruse a series of worksheets designed to help little ones with their early reading skills.

Students distinguish the difference between the short and long vowel sounds. They practice correspondences that are spelled and pronounced differently working with a_e=/A/ vowel sounds. Elkonin Letter boxes and class set of books are...

Study the short and long sounds of the letter e. Learners will practice words and tongue twisters using both the short and long vowel /e/. They use letter boxes and letter tiles to spell words containing the target sound. To close the...

Phonetic masters identify and recognize short vowel sounds by reading and listening to a story that highlights select words. They use picture clues to aid comprehension and construct a story by actively choosing and identifying...

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...

Review r-controlled words, open and closed vowels, and dipthongs with a set of classroom posters. Each page features one concept with a colorful illustration, an explanation, and a list of applicable words.

In this long e and short e practice worksheet, students study 16 examples of word pairs that feature the long and short e sounds.

Give your budding readers practice with vowel sounds using a sorting activity which will especially appeal to kinesthetic learners. They examine two cans, each with a header card attached. The header card words have the same vowel...

These nicely-illustrated slides should help young learners associate short vowel sounds with words that use them. For example, the short o slide has pictures of a frog, a rocket, and a comet. The short u slide has pictures of a bus, a...

Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness lesson. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities, children practice...

Students navigate a website to practice the short e sound.  For this short e sound lesson, students read a story on Starfall and complete practice with the short e sound.

This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...

For this identifying long i and short i vowel sounds worksheet, students observe pictures and write their names, color the long i words, and circle the short i words. Students write 24 answers.

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...

Some sounds sound very similar! Help your class learn how to distinguish between various sounds by following the steps outlined in this plan. The plan includes a warm-up, a teacher-led portion, and details for guided and independent...

Set young readers on the path toward fluency with this phonemic awareness resource. Based on the award-winning children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, this lesson allows beginning readers to practice isolating...

Learning how to read is a big challenge for young learners, but this series of lessons provides them with the extra support they need to succeed. With each lesson following the a clearly outlined format, children are introduced...