K12 Reader
Long Vowels
Keep things short and sweet for your young learners with a simple long vowel worksheet. Presented with four long vowel words with the vowels missing, children must correctly identify and write in the letters that complete...
Achieve3000
Discriminating Phonemes
Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness instructional activity. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities,...
Lerner Publishing
Teaching Vowel Combinations
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.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nature Walk: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Reinforce concepts such as long vowels, spelling patterns, sound clusters, double-final consonants, and syllables with a nature-themed unit. Through a series of extra support lessons, learners compare and contrast using a...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Home Sweet Home: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)
Home Sweet Home is the theme of a unit comprised of extra support lessons. Scholars reinforce concepts through chants, grand discussions, and practice worksheets. Topics include digraphs, blending phoneme, long vowels, final sounds,...
Starfall
Sky Ride
For this long /i/ sound instructional activity, students circle the words with the long /i/ sound and then write each word in the blank to match the picture.
Curated OER
The Man and the Dog
For this long vowel worksheet, learners complete the short story "The Man and the Dog" by filling in the five blanks from the vocabulary words found in the word bank on the worksheet. Students then put the four pictures in chronological...
Starfall
Robot and Mr. Mole
In this language arts learning exercise, students investigate the long /o/ sound by identifying pictures and writing its name.
David Suits
“Wild Readers” Decoding Skills Lesson Plan
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...
Curated OER
Scare the Crows
In this long vowel O activity, students determine which shapes on the page contain words with the long vowel O sound. Then, they cut them out and glue them together on another piece of paper to create a scarecrow.
Essential Skills Software
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...
Starfall
Long /a/ Sound
Aim for straight A's in this activity, which provides students with a fun illustration of a park where they find various words with the long /a/ sound (cane, cave, gate, etc.). A word bank helps students to find the correct words....
Achieve3000
Discriminating Phonemes 2
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...
Starfall
Robot and Mr. Mole
In this phonics worksheet, students circle and write four words with the long /o/ sound to match pictures.
Starfall
Pete's Sheep
In this language arts learning exercise, learners investigate the long /e/ sound by writing four words corresponding to a picture.
Starfall
Jake's Tale
In this phonics activity, learners circle and write 4 words with the long /a/ sound.
Starfall
Dune Buggy
Students match long /u/ sound words to pictures. All examples are written in DeNelian writing.
University of Texas
Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...
Curated OER
Crazy Crossword
In this long vowel I activity, learners complete a crossword puzzle from a word bank containing eight words containing the long vowel I in them.
Texas Center for Learning Disabilities
First-Grade Intervention
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...
Curated OER
Oh Deer!
In this identifying the long o sound words activity, learners observe a puzzle with words written on each piece, color the words with long o sounds brown, and the remaining words green. Students color 17 puzzle pieces.
Starfall
Dune Buggy
In this reading worksheet, students practice reading with long /u/ words. Students make a seven-page book about Luke and his dune buggy. Students read and color the pictures.
Curated OER
What A Day!
In this completing sentences worksheet, students fill in the blanks with long o words and then circle those word pictures hidden in a scene. Students write 10 answers.