Curated OER
Short Vowels
Learners will create a list of short vowel sound words and participate in computer phonics activities to practice. They will read an interactive storybook online. Next, they will complete words in order to better understand short vowel...
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 1 - Short Vowels
Apple, Adam, and At all have something in common. What is it? They all start with the short A sound. The first lesson plan of set in the Word Recognition and Fluency series introduces readers to short vowel sounds with a series of...
Super Teacher Worksheets
Long and Short Vowel Sounds
Long and short vowels have never been quite so colorful! Learners use an intricate key to color a grid of words based on the vowel sound they hear. Red is the long a sound, light blue is the short u sound, etc. By the time they've...
Kiz Club
"I" Sound
How well do your pupils know their /i/ sounds? Require practice with this activity. Learners cut out eight images and paste them in the boxes labeled for short /i/ sounds and long /i/ sounds. There are four words that begin with each sound.
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: I Sounds
Youngsters practice identifying, writing, and pronouncing long and short i sounds in common words. After cutting out vowel sound cards, they then paste the cards besides appropriate matching words, such as zip, ice, and six.
Scholastic
Using What's in the Truck?: A Short Vowel Book
From bats and hats to pigs and fish, your youngsters will fill a truck with items that contain all the short vowel sounds using this great printable mini-booklet.
Curated OER
Short Vowel Sounds
Use this resource to provide a quick review of words with short vowel sounds. Learners view pictures, and read and write words with the short vowel sound o. Afterwards, they write a sentence using some of the short o words. Students...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Vowel Picture Sort
Sound sorting can be a fun way to get little ones phonologically prepared for a life of reading. In this activity, learners sort picture cards based on the long or short vowel sound they make when said aloud.
Kathryn J. Davis
Abridged Short Vowel Spelling Workbook
Find 50 pages of worksheets to help emerging readers practice short vowel sounds using pictures, simple sentences, and word matching. They focus on CVC and two-letter words with short vowels.
Kiz Club
Phonics Floor Game: Short Vowels
Turn your phonics instruction into a game! First, hop on to word family foot prints to match the short vowel sound cards. Then, take the game to the next level; write a word on the foot print that has the same word family sound.
Progressive Phonics
Short Vowel “A”
Support your phonics instruction with this beginner reading book that focuses on the short vowel /a/. The book is divided into four chapters based on the word families at, ad, an, and am. Letters and words used are c, a, t, s, m, n, d,...
Curated OER
Vowels
Once viewed in slideshow mode, this presentation shows nine interactive slides about short vowel sounds. Within these slides, there are seven questions asking viewers if they hear a short vowel sound in a list of words. A check mark pops...
Starfall
Short I Label the Picture
For this reading worksheet, students use the words from a list to label six pictures within an illustration of a circus show. All of the words contain the short vowel /i/ sound.
Curated OER
Short Vowel Sounds
In this short vowel worksheet, 1st graders will focus on reading CVC words. Students will study 6 pictures and choose the correct word from the word box to write on the dotted lines beneath each picture.
Curated OER
Short Vowel Movements
Students use gestures to recognize the short vowel sounds. In this cvc lesson, students use a cue to recognize the vowel sound. Students practice various words with the cues.
Curated OER
Vowel Sounds: I and O
Early readers put their short vowel know how to the test. They read a series of simple cvc words, circle all the words that contain the medial short vowel sound indicated, then write those words in the space provided. Phonics, reading,...
K12 Reader
They Go for a Nice Drive
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...
Curated OER
Short Vowel i-Match Pictures and Words
In this short vowel i worksheet, students name pictures, coloring those that have the short i sound. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Curated OER
Mixed CVC Words: Middle a, e, i, o, u
For this CVC words review worksheet, learners examine nine pictures and identify each of them. The words feature the short vowel sounds of a, e, i, o, and u. Children also complete five fill-in-the-blank questions.
Curated OER
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...
Curated OER
Short Vowel I Sound
In this short vowel i instructional activity, students color pictures of animals and numbers containing the short vowel i and read the names. Students color and read 4 pictures and names.
Curated OER
Short
What do "milk," "rich," and "fix" have in common? They all have short "i" sounds, and they're all featured on this matching instructional activity, along with twelve other words and definitions. Students who are struggling with vowel...
Curated OER
Short Vowel I Activity #2
In this short i learning exercise, students circle the word in a pair that has the short i sound, then write the word on provided lines. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
K12 Reader
Long Vowels
Keep things short and sweet for your young learners with a simple long vowel worksheet. Presented with four long vowel words with the vowels missing, children must correctly identify and write in the letters that complete each word.