Reading Resource
Falling Leaves Long Vowel Game
Autumn's come early in your classroom! Match leaves with short words to the trees with the correct vowel sounds. A few blank leaves allow you to add your own words to the activity.
Lakeshore Learning
Alphabet Sounds Teaching Tubs
A hands-on activity brings the alphabet to life in your kindergarten! Fill tubs with items that begin with the same letter or end with the same sound, and let kids make the connections between the items.
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.
EngageNY
Comparing an Author’s Presentation of Ideas: “Rachel Carson: Sounding the Alarm on Pollution”
It's all in the presentation. Readers take a look at author's presentation in the article Rachel Carson: Sounding the Alarm on Pollution. Scholars work together to complete a Comparing
and Contrasting Authors’ Presentation graphic...
Curated OER
Long a Vowel Phoneme
In this long a vowel phoneme worksheet, students cut out the 35 word cards featuring the long a sound. Students sort the 35 cards into groups based on the patterns that make the long a sound.
Curated OER
'Y' (Long e) Missing Vowels
In this phonics missing vowel activity worksheet, students fill in the missing vowels in 16 words in order to form 16 words with the long e sound. Students then read the list of words they have created.
Curated OER
Long Vowel I
In this long vowel worksheet, 1st graders will focus on the long i sound. Students will study 6 pictures and choose the beginning, middle, and end sound for each before writing the words on the lines provided.
Curated OER
Short and Long Vowel Sounds
In this vowel sounds instructional activity, students place an X through bubbles whose words contain short vowel sounds and circle those with long vowel sounds.
Curated OER
ie, igh, and y
In this long "i" sound instructional activity, learners put words into the correct column in the chart. Students fill in the chart with ie, igh, and y words. Learners fill in 21 words.
Curated OER
Short and Long Vowel Sounds for Primary Grades
In this short and long vowel sounds for primary grades worksheet, students look at 15 words and circle the ones that match the sound of the given word, not interactively, with different words and answers available online.
Curated OER
ale and ame Words
In this long a sound worksheet, students examine 18 words and sort them into the "ale" group or the "ame" groups. Students also fill in the blanks in 6 sentences with "ale" or "ame" words from the word bank.
Curated OER
Vowels Short And Long: Elevators
Second graders study short and long vowel sounds. They use a variety of drill and practice software to support basic skills acquisition and simple menus to locate information, with teacher assistance. They watch the movie and listen...
Curated OER
Match the Rhymes
Tree, bee, knee, three... what do these have in common? Focus on vowel sounds in this matching worksheet for beginning readers. Learners connect a picture of a tree to pictures that rhyme with it and then get some printing practice. All...
Curated OER
School-Home Links 32
Is your child learning the double vowel long e sound? Have your learner point to the picture, say both words the box, and choose which word uses the target vowel sound.
Curated OER
Alternative Pronunciation of the Letter Y
Explore the letter y, with the long e sound, using this resource. Learners read a series of words containing this sound, such as sky, lolly, and merry. They discuss the different sound for this letter. It is a colorful and complete...
Orange Public Schools
Stagecraft
The house lights dim, the curtain parts, lights slowly come up, revealing the stage. Before the actors appear, before a word is spoken, the audience is drawn in by the lighting, by the colors, by lines of the set, by the props, and...
Curated OER
Y Long E Crossword
For this crossword puzzle worksheet, students solve the clues to find the words spelled with y and have a long e sound. Students spell 9 words in the crossword puzzle.
Curated OER
Long Vowels Chart
In this phonics learning exercise, students learn the spelling patterns for long vowels and combinations by analyzing the long vowels chart. Students see the different ways to spell the long vowel sounds and notice words with that...
Curated OER
'Y' (Long e) Anagrams
In this phonics activity worksheet, learners examine 16 sets of letters and unscramble them to form 16 words that have the long e sound.
Rock ’N Learn
Jean and Dean
In this long e worksheet, 1st graders will focus on the long vowel sound. Students will analyze 8 pictures and write the words below each picture on the lines provided.
Curated OER
Long and Short Vowel A
In this long and short A worksheet, students read the words inside of ten teddy bears. Students color the long A words purple and the short A words brown.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nature Walk: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)
Walking in nature is the theme of a unit designed to support English language development lessons. Scholars look, write, speak, and move to explore topics such as camping, woodland animals, instruments,...
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,...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Home Sweet Home: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)
Through grand discussion, picture cards, and poems, enhance language proficiency with a Home Sweet Home themed unit created to support English language development. Each lesson follows a listen, speak, move, and/or look routine that...