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...

Focus English language learners' attention on word stress and phrase stress with a pronunciation chart that breaks the sounds into moving and non-moving vowel sounds. The chart tool uses colors and key words to indicate...

In this short vowels worksheet, students read the short 'u' sound word and place brackets around the u in each word. Students complete 6 words.

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.

Pictures help young learners remember new, unknown vocabulary. Show them this picture book and have them review the words that accompany each picture. Consider creating pictures for the five words on the last page. 

This worksheet focuses on the medial vowel sound o. Pre-readers complete two tasks to practice the short o sound. They draw a line from the letter o to pictures that contain the medial /o/ sound. They then, fill in six cvc words with the...

In this short vowels activity, 1st graders complete the sentences by writing the name of the picture word that use the short u sound. Students complete 7 sentences.

In this short u sound activity, 1st graders study the pictures and say the name for each. Students listen for the vowel sound of the short u and color only the pictures that contain the short u sound. Students then trace the upper and...

Surprise! is the theme of a unit covering such topics as consonants, blending, short vowels sounds, high frequency words, and number words. The unit's lessons also include teachable moments covering story structure, illustrations,...

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.

In this vowel u worksheet, students trace several times, read, write each word once, find and circle the words bug, bus, cup, mud and gum.

In this vowels worksheet, students examine 2 small identical pictures of Uncle Sam and the upper case letter U. There are no directions.

Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness lesson, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Students can...

Which of these objects rhymes? There are four starter pictures here, each heading rows of three objects. Learners determine and circle the row object that rhymes with the first one. Then, they connect two of the CVC words with printing...

Pupils write down all short vowel sounds. They read their spelling words and attach them to each short vowel sound. They practice writing each spelling word under each short vowel sound that they have listed on their paper. They discuss...

First graders practice short vowel sounds. In this literacy lesson, the teacher demonstrates the short vowel sounds, then guides students through practicing the sounds and making words. Students complete a worksheet for independent...

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...

In this short vowel activity, students sort words in a word box, placing them in the short e, short o or short u category, 18 words total.

In this short u sound worksheet, 1st graders use the word bank with short u words to complete the sentences. Students use the picture words to help them order the sentence.

In this short u sound learning exercise, 1st graders use the secret code box to help them spell words that contain the short u sound. Students write the word on the lines and draw pictures of it.

For this long and short vowel worksheet, students decide if each word in one of 12 bubbles has a long or short vowel U. Students color the long vowel words blue, and the short vowel words green.

Focus on the short u sound in this rhyme worksheet for emergent readers. Learners examine images surrounding a jug, drawing lines to connect it to those that rhyme (bug, rug, mug). Then, they practice their printing by tracing the...

For this short vowel word building worksheet, learners will choose a vowel from the letter bank to complete a 3-letter short vowel word.

In this language arts learning exercise, learners examine a detailed picture of a child's room. Students use the word bank to label the picture with six nouns using the short vowel /u/ sound.