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Starfall

Dune Buggy

For Students K - 2nd
Students match long /u/ sound words to pictures. All examples are written in DeNelian writing.
Unit Plan
National Institute for Literacy

Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling

For Students Pre-K - 3rd Standards
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.
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Bud and June

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this identifying words with short and long "u" sounds worksheet, students observe pictures, write their names, and count the short and long "u" words. Students write 10 answers.
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The New Stew

For Students 1st - 2nd
In phonics practice activity, students examine 10 words, color the words that have the long u vowel sound and put an x on the words that do not have the long u vowel sound.
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'OO' (Long U) Missing Vowels

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this long u sounds worksheet, students fill in the missing vowels for the 'oo' words. Students spell and read 20 words that contain a long u sound in the 'oo' spelling.
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Does it Have a Long I or a Short I

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this phonics learning exercise, students say the name of each of twelve pictures. They identify circle either the long i or short i symbol to tell which sound is in the picture.
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Vowel Digraphs

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this vowel digraph learning exercise, students write either long O or long U for the sound of the vowel digraph in a list of 12 words.
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Starfall

Dune Buggy

For Students K - 2nd
In this reading activity, learners practice reading with long /u/ words. Students make a seven-page book about Luke and his dune buggy. Learners read and color the pictures.
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Configuration Station

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 5 words from a word bank. Students fit them into a puzzle, generate sentences, place them in alphabetical order and illustrate them.
PPT
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Eng 213 Final Exam

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Use this presentation in your linguistics class as a review tool, or utilize the concepts within it to frame your curriculum. Covering vowel and consonant rules, morphophonemic spelling systems, and assimilation rules, this slide show...
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Vowels

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this grammar worksheet, students read ten sentences where the vowel is missing in some of the words. They put the correct vowel in the space to make each sentence make sense. Students also identify whether each word is a short or long...
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OO (Long U) Wordsearch (nwb)

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this word search worksheet, students spell words with 'oo' letters to complete the word search puzzle. Students list the long u sound words on the back of the worksheet.
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Long U Words Printing Practice and Sentence Writing

For Students K - 1st
In this language arts worksheet, students examine 4 words in a word bank which all have long U sounds. Students trace, then write the words. Students then use 2 of the words in a sentence.
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Does It Have Long U or Short U?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this long U worksheet, learners say the name of 12 pictures. Students circle the symbol for long or short U to match the sound that the vowel in the word makes.
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'OO' Long U Anagrams

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this long u sound activity, students unscramble the words containing 'oo' letters to make a long u sound. Students unscramble 20 anagrams.
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'A / magic e' Wordsearch

For Students 2nd
In this phonics word search puzzle instructional activity, 2nd graders use their problem solving skills to find as many long a words as possible in the word puzzle. There is no word bank provided.
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'O / Magic e' Decoder

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this phonics word decoder worksheet, students use their problem solving skills and the decoder key to decode 20 sets of letters in order to form 20 long o words.
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Starfall

Dune Buggy

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this ELA activity, students fill write words with long /u/ vowel sounds.
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Short e, Long e Spelling Activity

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling activity worksheet, students rewrite the words with short e and long e sounds on the lines. Students spell 20 words.
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Rock ’N Learn

Bud And June

For Students 1st
In this letter u learning exercise, 1st graders will focus on both the long and short vowel sound. Students will study 8 pictures and write the word below each picture on the lines provided.
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Long u With Silent e Writing Activities

For Students 1st
In this long u with silent e writing learning exercise, 1st graders look at 5 pictures, say their names, write them or make sentences with the words. They draw 2 pictures of items that are named using the spelling pattern.
Lesson Plan
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Learn-to-Read Pumpkin Patch

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice identifying and pronouncing the short letter "u" sound. In this phonetic awareness lesson plan, students access the Starfall.com website and follow the directions on the screen to reinforce the short "u" sound. Students...
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Introduce the VCe rule (Long u, o)

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars say the word "dime" as the teacher writes it on the board and reviews the silent e/long vowel rule. In this phonics lesson, students say other words and review the rule as words are written on the board, first without the...
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'EW' Long U Wordsearch

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this word search worksheet, students practice spelling words containing 'ew' or the long 'u' sound. Students complete the word search to find the 'ew' words.