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Food Pyramid

For Teachers 2nd
Here is an engaging cross-curicular lesson which incorporates elements of language arts and heatlh. Groups of learners are assigned to one vowel sound. They work together to find pictures of food out of a booklet that have the long vowel...
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Short a – Long a – Short e

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vowels sounds worksheet, students recognize the sounds that vowels make as they read lists of 11 short a sound words, 11 long a sounds, and 11 short e sounds.
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Short Vowel Sounds

For Students 1st - 2nd
Some vowels make the same sound, like the vowels in grow and both. Read the words on the left hand side of the page (there are six) and match them to a similarly sounding word on the right hand side. 
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Canned Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Give your budding readers practice with vowel sounds using a sorting activity which will especially appeal to kinesthetic learners. They examine two cans, each with a header card attached. The header card words have the same vowel...
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Hi, My Name is A

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice decoding pseudo words with the vowel-consonant-e...
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Long and Short Vowel a

For Students 1st
In this vowel learning exercise, 1st graders focus on the usage of the long and short a sound. Students study 10 pictures and write the name of each picture under the correct column for the short and long vowel sound.
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They Go for a Nice Drive

For Students 1st Standards
Set aside some time to practice the long /i/ sound when it shows up in words that follow the _i_e pattern. Kids read the short poem, which includes plenty of words that follow this pattern, and then respond to three reading comprehension...
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Oh! Let's Go Home

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students distinguish between short vowel o and long vowel o. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice reading and spelling words with the vowel-consonant-e...
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Vowels: The Long and Short of It

For Teachers K - 1st
These nicely-illustrated slides should help young learners associate short vowel sounds with words that use them. For example, the short o slide has pictures of a frog, a rocket, and a comet. The short u slide has pictures of a bus, a...
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Discriminating Phonemes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness lesson plan. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities, children practice...
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"A" All Around

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Spell and read words containing ai and ay. First and second graders identify vowel digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion on the combinations of letters that comprise digraphs, they practice reading and...
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I Ate Grape Cake

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners distinguish between the sounds for short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on vowel-consonant-e pattern. They practice reading and...
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Bo Knows "O"

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e patter that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They distinguish between the short vowel o and long vowel o. Students practice reading and spelling words with the...
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The Squeaky Door

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Young readers distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with emphasis on /ea/. They practice reading and spelling a variety of words that...
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Mr. Cloak Loads his Boat with Oats

For Teachers 1st
First graders distinguish between the sounds for short vowel o and long vowel o. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on /oa/. They practice reading and identifying a...
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Shy Tyrone

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this identifying long and short i words activity, students cut pictures with words using the long and short i vowels and paste them in categories according to their sounds. Students solve 8 problems.
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The Race To Space

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice reading words with the vowel-consonant-e pattern.
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Do Sheep See Sheep When They Feel The Need To Sleep?

For Teachers 1st
First graders distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on /ee/. They practice reading and identifying a...
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Short Vowel A: Find Words in a Group

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this short A words learning exercise, students read 15 words that have the letter A. Students circle the words that have a long vowel sound and write them on the lines.
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Peg and Hen

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students navigate a website to practice the short e sound.  In this short e sound lesson, students read a story on Starfall and complete practice with the short e sound.
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Picture the Word

For Teachers K - 1st
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
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Long and Short Vowel O

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this long and short vowel O worksheet, students analyze the words inside pencil shapes and color the short vowels blue and the long vowels orange.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 6: Short A, Long A

For Students 5th - 6th
In this spelling activity, students learn to spell a list of 20 words that have both long and short sound of vowel A. Students write each word one time. There are additional at-home activities listed.
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Mike and Mick

For Students K - 2nd
For this identifying long i and short i vowel sounds worksheet, students observe pictures and write their names, color the long i words, and circle the short i words. Students write 24 answers.

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