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Vocabulary Building Activity: Short a
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students examine the words damp, match, track, trap, pattern, insects, and travel. Students use the words in a memory activity, a word scramble activity, and a sentence writing activity.
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Word and Picture Match
In this short vowels word and picture matching activity, students read 5 words that contain short vowel A or O. Students draw lines to match the words to pictures that illustrate them.
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Write the Missing Vowel
In this vowels worksheet, students study 15 pictures with corresponding word labels, each with a missing vowel. Students generate the missing vowel and write it in the blank.
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Vocabulary Building Activity - Short u Words
In this vocabulary building worksheet, 2nd graders write a list of 7 short u words as the teacher dictates them. They unscramble the words and write sentences using each one. They work with words such as luck, drum, bunch, and hundred.
Starfall
Short E Label the Picture
In this reading learning exercise, students use the words from a list to label six pictures within an illustration of a circus show. Students may also color the pictures.
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Uh Oh!
Help your elementary learners distinguish between short and long vowel /o/ sounds. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. Then they practice reading and spelling words...
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Fun Fonix: Say it. Connect it. Write it.
In this phonics worksheet, students respond to 6 questions by saying the word represented in the picture, drawing lines to connect the letter bubbles, and writing the newly formed word.
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First-Grade Intervention
Learning how to read is a big challenge for young learners, but this series of lessons provides them with the extra support they need to succeed. With each lesson following the a clearly outlined format, children are introduced...
University of Texas
Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...
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English Skills Worksheet (6.203)
In this multiple English activities worksheet, students complete a variety of assignments: write three onomatopoeia sentences, add ten endings to ten words, give the root words to eight words, play two rounds of word chess, find the...
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Spill the Beans
Learners play an alphabet game with beans that asks them create simple short vowel words. They spill several marked beans onto a paper and separate those that have fallen face-up. They arrange the beans into words and read them aloud.
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Egg-stra!! Egg-stra!!
Young scholars 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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The Scary, Creaky Door
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in pictures using a...
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Here Kitty, Kitty
Learners recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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The Big Pig
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Color the Bubbles
In this long and short vowels discrimination worksheet, students see 15 bubbles with words written in them. They color the long a sound words pink, and the short vowel sound purple.
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Isabelle the Icky Iguana
Learners practice the sound and spelling of the short vowel /i/. They identify the short /i/ sound in spoken and written words. The tongue twister "Isabelle iguana is in her igloo," and "Tin Man Fix It," along with Elkonin letter boxes...
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Home Spelling Practice Unit 1
In this reading and writing short vowel words in cursive worksheet, students read a list of words and write them on the lines provided. Students write 20 word answers.
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Long And Short E Sounds
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students examine 4 picture clues which depict long and short vowel e words. There is a primary writing line and the direction "write," but it is unclear if students are to write a sentence or just...
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Vocabulary Building Activities
In these four building vocabulary worksheets, students view vocabulary word lists, use definition clues, unscramble letters, and write sentences using each vocabulary word. Students write twenty-one answers per worksheet.
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Configuration Station #3
In this language arts worksheet, students study 6 words in a provided word bank. Students generate sentences, fill in missing words, write rhyming words and illustrate to show meaning.
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Short Vowels - Short Uu Words
In this short u words activity, 1st graders use the word bank of short u words to help them unscramble the 20 words. Students write the short u words on the lines.
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Ships with Short Vowels
In this phonics activity, 1st graders read ten words with either short a or short o. The words are listed on colored ships which can be cut and used for a phonics sorting game.
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Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe
In this phonics activity, 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.