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Make, Take, & Teach: Long I Vowel Sound Word List [Pdf]
Use this list to master the letter combinations which create the long i sound in English words.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Dealing With Long Words
Don't let long words intimidate. Here students learn to break up long words into syllables.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes
A free downloadable interactive game. Help a baby bird fly by making words with a long "a" sound and a silent "e."
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Read a Word: Long O With a Final E
Practice reading one-syllable long-vowel words with a final -e. The focus of this game is on the long "o" sound.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Long Short Vowel Sort
Students will sort picture words by moving them into either the short vowel or long vowel space ship.
Starfall
Starfall: Y Can Be a Vowel
Discover how and when the letter "y" can act as a vowel. This site features an audio and video component exploring this topic. Students and teachers will benefit from this entertaining resource.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Long and Short Vowel Sounds
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students examine word and letter patterns to determine long and short vowel sounds.
Quia
Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean?
This site offers flash cards for practicing vowel sounds. On one side of the card is a word; on the other is the vowel sound, such as long e. Students try to determine the vowel sound when they read the word; then check to see if they...
Quia
Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Concentration
This is a matching and memory game which requires students to not only match words with their vowel sounds, but also to remember their covered location on the grid of boxes.
Other
Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
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: Long E Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate long /e/ in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: long e" lesson.
School Express
Schoolexpress.com: Long and Short Vowel Worksheets
Teachers will find an assortment of detailed worksheets that engage students learning in vowels.
Other
First School Years: Literacy: Phonics: Vowels: Sort the Long and Short 'E' Words
This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'e' vowel sound.
Other
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.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Aw" Sound
Download this game to practice words containing the "aw" phoneme. Drag the phoneme into the correct part of the word to help a baby bird named Mango fly with her friends.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Long Vowel E
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Flipchart students will read and group words with long e vowel sounds according to spelling ee or ea (short e will also be reviewed). Students will also use Activotes to select correct word...
Starfall
Starfall: Learn to Read
There are 15 easy-to-read stories, each focusing on a particular vowel sounds; it also provides quizzes using the same long and short vowel sounds. In addition there are alphabet videos.
Quia
Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Matching
This is a matching game in which students match the word in yellow blocks with the vowel sounds in blue boxes by clicking on them consecutively.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Short Vowel Sounds
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps early readers look more in depth at the short vowel sounds and requires them to identify, create, and write words that contain short vowel sounds.
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,...
Other
Reading From Scratch: Spelling Rules
The "Reading from Scratch" site provides a list of spelling rules with examples.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Short Vowel Lessons Review
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews words that incorporate short vowels in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words sounded...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Short U Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short "u" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...