Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 1 - Short Vowels
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...
Super Teacher Worksheets
Long and Short Vowel Sounds
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...
Scholastic
Using What's in the Truck?: A Short Vowel Book
From bats and hats to pigs and fish, your youngsters will fill a truck with items that contain all the short vowel sounds using this great printable mini-booklet.
Kiz Club
Phonics Floor Game: Short Vowels
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.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Vowel Picture Sort
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.
Progressive Phonics
Short Vowel “A”
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,...
Progressive Phonics
Short Vowel “A” Activity Worksheets
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,...
Curated OER
Short Vowel Sounds: Listening Exercise
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...
Curated OER
Short Vowel Sounds
In this short vowel instructional activity, 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.
Curated OER
Word Washer Vowels
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...
Curated OER
Vowel Sounds: I and O
Early readers put their short vowel know how to the test. They read a series of simple cvc words, circle all the words that contain the medial short vowel sound indicated, then write those words in the space provided. Phonics, reading,...
Curated OER
Short Vowel Sounds
In this reading worksheet, students match 12 words with their correct picture. All of the words have short vowel sounds, such as pill, bag, and cut.
Curated OER
Short Vowel A: Words That Do Not Rhyme
In this short A words worksheet, students read 15 words in a box that all have the vowel A. Students circle and then write all the short vowel words.
Curated OER
Short Vowel A: Find and Circle
In this short A words learning exercise, students read 15 words in a box that all have the letter A. Students circle all the short vowel words and write them on the lines.
Curated OER
Coloring A Short Vowel Picture
In this short vowels coloring worksheet, students read 15 short vowel words printed in a drawing of a chicken. Students use the key to color the sections correctly in the picture.
Curated OER
Short Vowels Coloring Page
In this short vowels worksheet, students analyze a picture of a dog who is fishing. Students read the words that are typed in different parts of the picture. Using the key, students color the short vowel word areas the correct colors.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
All Together Now: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)
All Together Now is the theme of this series of ESL lessons. Provide support to your language learners through games, role play, stories, and discussions all about greeting others, giving commands, telling about themselves, and being...
Curated OER
Short Vowels With Clifford
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...
Curated OER
Short Vowel Words: Word Scramble
For this language arts worksheet, students analyze 10 scrambled words. All are simple 3 letter short vowel words. Students decipher each word and write it correctly on the line.
Curated OER
Phonics: Short Vowel U
In this phonics short vowel U worksheet, students look over six pictures, pronounce each one, find the actual word from the word box and then write the actual word for each picture on the lines provided. Students put an X on the picture...
Curated OER
"Name Those Vowels"
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...
American English
Welcome to the Color Vowel Chart
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 where to put the...
Curated OER
Short Vowel Sounds
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...
Curated OER
Short
What do "milk," "rich," and "fix" have in common? They all have short "i" sounds, and they're all featured on this matching worksheet, along with twelve other words and definitions. Students who are struggling with vowel sounds will...