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Spelling Words for Frog and Toad Together
In this spelling words for Frog and Toad Together activity, 1st graders write 5 high frequency words and 10 spelling words, find and write long I and long O words, complete 5 sentences, answer 6 questions from a story and write a short...
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 1: Short E
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of six words that all contain the sound of short vowel E. Students write each word one time. There are additional at-home activities.
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Dream English Phonics: "O"
In this recognizing the short "o" sound worksheet, students read the picture words octopus and on, trace and print them, and trace and print the upper case "O" and the lower case "o". Students print 12 answers.
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Short and Long O Cut and Print Worksheet
In this phonics cut and print worksheet, 3rd graders cut out pictures of words that contain the short and long o sound. They print the word on the elementary line below the picture.
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Short Vowels Sorting
In this phonics worksheet, pupils investigate the sounds of short E, short O and short U vowels. Students read and compare 24 words and sort them into the correct place on the chart.
National Institute for Literacy
Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling
Go over digraphs, vowel sounds, and affixes with a series of decoding and spelling lessons. Each lesson guides learners through a different reading and phonics skill, building on the lesson before, and challenging them with each step.
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 where to put the...
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Under the Umbrella
Students explore the short /u/ sound. They practice making the sound, noticing how their mouths move to make it. They use letterboxes to spell 'u' words, identify 'u' = /u/ in written words, and play the 'Under the Umbrella' game.
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Finish the Word
In this missing vowels learning exercise, 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.
Reading Resource
Falling Leaves Long Vowel Game
Autumn's come early in your classroom! Match leaves with short words to the trees with the correct vowel sounds. A few blank leaves allow you to add your own words to the activity.
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Hop on Pop - Short 'o'
Students practice the alphabetic significance of the letter /o/ along with its awareness of phonemes in spoken words. They assess on construction paper the phrase, "We like to hop on top of Pop who's on top of a hot rock" written on it...
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Short Vowel Sounds
Pupils write down all short vowel sounds. They read their spelling words and attach them to each short vowel sound. They practice writing each spelling word under each short vowel sound that they have listed on their paper. They discuss...
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Short Vowel Review
First graders practice short vowel sounds. In this literacy lesson, the teacher demonstrates the short vowel sounds, then guides students through practicing the sounds and making words. Students complete a worksheet for independent...
Rock ’N Learn
The Hole Story
In this long o worksheet, 1st graders will focus on the long o sound. Students will read a short passage and fill in the 5 missing words from the word box to correctly complete the story.
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Between the Lions: Exploring Short-Vowel Sounds
Students review the short sounds of a, e, i, o, and u previously discussed in class. They read and be able to identify words that have short-vowel sounds and become familiar with the basic navigational features of a website.
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The Letter O
In this letter O worksheet, students determine whether an underlined word had the long or short o sound, circling the correct answer.
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Vowel Sounds - Short Uu Words
In this vowel sounds learning exercise, 1st graders find all the short vowel u sound words in the word puzzle. Students find 20 short u words.
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Food Pyramid
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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Vowel Sounds -- Short Ii Words
In this short i word search worksheet, students locate and circle the 20 word that have short I in them in the word search puzzle.
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Home Spelling Practice: Long I, Long O
In this spelling learning exercise, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. All contain the sound of long O or long I. Students write each word one time on the lines.
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Long Vowel or Short Vowel
In this long and short vowel sounds worksheet, students examine 16 words and identify their vowel sounds as long o, short o, long u, or short u.
Starfall
Short I Word Search
In this word search puzzle, students search for nine one and two-syllable, short /i/ words. The puzzle, a seven-by-seven matrix, contains words like pin, fin, wig, kitten, six, zipper, dish, and lip. Pictures are placed above the words...
Starfall
Short U Word Search
Learners in this language arts learning exercise examine a picture word bank of nine words with a short /u/. Students locate the words in the easy word search puzzle.
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Vocabulary Building Activity
For this vocabulary skills worksheet, 1st graders examine the words got, fox, dog, not, and saw. Students use the words in a memory activity, a word scramble activity, and a spelling activity.