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First School Years: Literacy: Phonics: Vowels: Sort the Long and Short 'A' Words
This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'a' vowel sound.
Other
Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.
Starfall
Starfall: Word Machines: Short A
In this interactive, student learn to pronounce and produce rhyming words containing the short A sound. Using the word maching, students can change the beginning or the ending sounds to make new words which are then clearly pronounced.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Phonics: Phonics and Spelling Quiz
This site is a phonics quiz in which students read the instructions, such as "find the word with a short "a" sound;" then they select the correct answer.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Phonics Scramble Games
Phonics Scramble Games includes eight games from which the students can choose, such as "Short A Sound". They are given a picture and a scrambled word. They are to drag the letter blocks to spell the word correctly, check their answer,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Phonics
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive flipchart explores beginning word sounds, ending word sounds, and short vowels. There are assessment questions included. The vocabulary level is appropriate for primary elementary...
Starfall
Starfall: Short I Song
Listen to and then sing along with a song highlighting the short i sound and giving several examples of words containing that sound. [0:43]
Starfall
Starfall: Short O Song
Listen to and then sing along with a song highlighting the short o sound and giving several examples of words containing that sound. [:051]
Starfall
Starfall: Short E Song
A song that students can listen to and sing along with to introduce the short e sound and to hear examples of words using that sound.
ICT Games
Ict Games: Cvc Pop
An interactive game where students can practice identifying words with short vowel sounds following the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Students listen to a word and then click on all of the matching words as they float by on bubbles.
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Irregular Words and Phonics
Learn about irregularly spelled words, vowel teams, and inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences by watching a review video. Practice what you learned by taking a quiz or playing a game!
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ay" Sound
Complete words with the "ay" phoneme to create a long "a" sound in this interactive game. Just download the game and complete the words to help Mango the baby bird fly with her friends.
Courseware Solutions
Got Kids Games: Magic Phonics Wizard: Find the Wizard
This is a phonics game in which students listen to a sound and then click on all of the words containing that sound. If they make three mistakes, they must start over. When finished, they find the magic wizard.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Name That Picture: Cvc Words
This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will view pictures and identify the words that contain the consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) spelling pattern. An...
Room Recess
Room recess.com: Cloudy Day Word Play
Match the picture to the cloud that contains the correct word. Choose to play with short vowel words, long vowel words, or a combination of both.
Starfall
Starfall: Mox's Shop
A phonics activity that demonstrates the short "o" sound. Beginning with a song and examples, students learn the sound and how it works within words. Then they can click through a story about a fox named Mox to see several examples of...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: A E and E E Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "a_e" and "e_e" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: U E Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate the silent e to form the long /u/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: O, Oa, Oe Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "o", "oa", and "oe" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: O E Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "o_e" pattern. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: I E Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "i_e" to form words with the long /i/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Long E Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate long /e/ in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Ea and Ear Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "ea" and "ear" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: The, Se, Etc. Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "the" or "se" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...