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Peg and Hen
Students navigate a website to practice the short e sound. For this short e sound lesson, students read a story on Starfall and complete practice with the short e sound.
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Long -oo and Short -oo
When two Os are put together in a word, a long -oo or a short -oo sound are produced. Learners examine two slides that have pictures and decide if the word depicted has the long -oo or short -oo sound. Examples are: football, hood, and...
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CVC Words
Have your class practice simple words with the short i sound. This is a quick and easy way for learners to practice reading skills. It could be used as a whole group or independent activity.
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Ships with Short Vowels
In this phonics worksheet, 1st graders read ten words with either short a or short o. The words are listed on colored ships which can be cut and used for a phonics sorting game.
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Word and Picture Match
In this short vowels word and picture matching instructional activity, students read 5 words that contain short vowel A or O. Students draw lines to match the words to pictures that illustrate them.
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Short I/Short U Name the Picture
For this short vowel name the picture worksheet, students will choose a short I or short U word from the word bank to correctly name the picture. Then students will draw a picture of a kid on the bus.
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3 Phoneme Word Puzzles Sets 1-5
In this word puzzle worksheet, students will cut apart words containing 3 phonemes and the matching picture. Then students will try to put the words back together and read the word.
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Bright Mice
Kindergarten through second graders explore the long i sound. In this phonics lesson, they read The Mother's Day Mice, sing "Farmer in the Dell," and play I Spy with long i in order to explore the target sound. Additionally, there is a...
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The Doctor Said Open Up and Say /o/
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter O. Students then listen to the book "In the Big Top," and write down the words from the...
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Animal Alphabet
Students make a class animal book using the letters of the alphabet. They use a website imbedded in this plan to get pages with animals that begin with any of the 26 letters.
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Lazy O
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter O. Students then listen to word pairs and identify the word containing the short /o/...
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Letter Pronunciation- "o" Sound
In this letter "o" worksheet, students read four words that all contain letter O. Students circle the word that best describes the picture and use it in a sentence.
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Finish the Word
For this missing vowels worksheet, 2nd graders fill in the missing vowels to the words and then write the words on the lines. Students do this for 5 words and fill in the blanks to 2 sentences.
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Long and Short Vowel O
In this vowel activity, students sort pictures according to their vowel sound, either long or short o, writing the words beneath the correct label. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Vowel Sounds - Short Uu Words
In this vowel sounds worksheet, 1st graders find all the short vowel u sound words in the word puzzle. Students find 20 short u words.
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Short O Words and Short A Words
In this vowel sounds worksheet, students say the names of 9 pictures. Students put an X on things that have short A names and circle the pictures that show short O words.
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The Short "O" Sound: Mom, Top, Octopus
In this language arts instructional activity, students study the short sound of "O" by reading the words: mom, top and octopus. Students write each of these words 2 times, then draw an octopus and a top.
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Who Knows the Letter?
Help learners identify initial consonant sounds and letters that represent that sound. They indicate awareness of consonant sounds and letters by responding with a physical movement. They also sing using "Sing Your Way Through Phonics"...
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The oo Sounds
Investigate spelling patterns that make the /oo/ sound in this labeling learning exercise. Scholars read a brief introduction explaining the different vowel pairings that make the long /oo/ sound, along with word examples....
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Connect the Rhymes
Pre-readers benefit from visual context clues like the ones in this rhyme worksheet. There are two sets of objects here, and scholars connect objects on the left with their rhyming counterparts on the right. Each word has the vowel...
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The ee Sound
When two vowels take a walk, the first one does the talking! Scholars see this motto put to use as they study the /ee/ sound in various spelling patterns. Learners read a short introduction on this concept before reading several example...
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Find the Rhyme
Find the rhyming word. All of these rhyming, single-syllable words have the short i sound, but learners have to determine which ones they are. There are four starting objects each heading a row of three objects. They examine the...
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The ea and ear sounds
Focus on the /ea/ and /ear/ sounds. Learners complete three sentences by adding the appropriate ea word from a word bank, re-writing each sentence. Then, they read an excerpt from Little Red Riding Hood and find all the...
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Short E Label the Picture
In this reading activity, students use the words from a list to label six pictures within an illustration of a circus show. Students may also color the pictures.