Spelling Words Well
Slip It In!
Bad, bid, bed. Jib, jab, job. Kids practice building short-vowel words with a game that challenges them to provide the missing short vowel in the provided word card.
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"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...
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Short i Sound Words
If you are teaching your young readers about the short vowel sounds, this presentation could be for you! Sixteen simple, 3-letter words appear in this basic PowerPoint. The i's are colored differently than the other two letters in each...
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The Everyday Red
Pair a hand motion with the /e/ sound so young learners remember it better! This plan has the class open their "creaky door" whenever they hear the /e/ sound. They'll learn a tongue twister and read the short story Red Gets Fed,...
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Vowel Sounds
This plan aims to increase the reading proficiency of your fourth grade class. While no materials are provided, a list of activities to practice are included. Various activities include creating songs for short vowel sounds, using cue...
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Rhyming Words: The Ut Family
What a great resource! Learners can review words with short vowel sounds, such as bun, bus, and hut using this presentation. The slides are easy to understand and colorful. This would be a quick way to review these words either in a...
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Short Vowel Pictures
In this short u sound worksheet, 1st graders study the pictures and say the name for each. Students listen for the vowel sound of the short u and color only the pictures that contain the short u sound. Students then trace the upper and...
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Short Vowel Oo
In this short o sound worksheet, students use the secret code box to help them spell some short Oo words. Students then draw a picture of the four words.
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Peg the Hen
In this phonics activity, students investigate the sound of the short vowel /e/. Students rhyme and write words.
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Fix It Fun
Young learners practice spelling and phonics with this quick vowel instructional activity. For each of the seven words provided, they must unscramble the letters and write the full word on the line provided.
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Phonics Short Vowels
In this phonics activity, students study each picture and then circle the pictures with names that have short U sounds. Students put an 'x' on the pictures with names that have short E words.
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Spelling Success; Vowel Sounds
There is a big difference between the words bit and bite. Learners begin to understand how to differentiate between short and long vowel sounds as they are given a word with a short vowel sound, and then are asked to add a letter to make...
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Practicing Short and Long Vowel Sounds
What are the differences between short and long vowel sounds? The class participates in a teacher ledinstructional activity in which they add letters to words as they evolve from a three letter, short vowel word to a longer long vowel...
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Short 'e'
First graders recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Medial Sound u
Join Ug the Bug for some vowel sound practice focused on the short /u/ sound. Scholars examine six images and label each with a CVC word that has this as its medial phoneme. Next, they complete two rhyming sentences about Ug, using a...
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Alphabetic Understanding, Phonics, and Spelling
Have your youngsters reading in no time with with collection of literacy activities and lessons. Starting with a basic understanding of the alphabet, this unit progressively builds students' phonemic awareness and ability to decode...
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Icky Fingers
Which i sound is used in the word icky? Kindergarteners and first graders listen to the short /i/ sound. They practice shaking their fingers to indicate icky when they hear the target sound. Then they practice reading a poster with the...
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Spelling Review
Kindergarteners can review short "o" spelling words in this colorful PowerPoint. Words include: "log", "jog", "stop", "pop", and "drop." Three additional challenge words are listed, also with short vowel sounds, including: "stamp",...
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Spelling Assessment
In this spelling worksheet, 3rd graders solve three riddles. Each riddle contains three clues for two pictured words. The first two riddles refer to words with the same vowel sound. The third requires students to apply the same spelling...
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Everybody Get Ready
Learners identify and spell words containing the short /e/ sound. They rehearse a fun tongue twister which contains words emphasizing the short /e/ sound. They then read Red Gets Fed as a class. Have your group clap every time they hear...
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Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe
In this phonics worksheet, 1st graders play tic-tac-toe while they practice reading words with short vowel sounds. Students cut Xs and Os to match with short vowel words on the game board.
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Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe
In this phonics instructional activity, 1st graders play tic-tac-toe while they practice reading words with short vowel sounds. Students match Xs and Os to short vowel words on the game board.
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Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe
In this phonics worksheet, 1st graders practice reading words with short vowels and cvc pattern while playing tic-tac-toe. Students cut out Xs and Os to match with words on their game board.