Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Starfall to Review the Short A Sound

For Teachers K - 1st
Students read a story with the short a sound. The story is about a rat. They access Starfall and select the story called Zac the Rat. They read the story out loud as a group then the students answer comprehension and skill questions...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel E: Circle and Print

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this short E words worksheet, students read ten sentences and circle the word in each that has a short E sound. Students print the short E words on the lines.
Worksheet
Curated OER

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.
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

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...
Lesson Plan
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"Name Those Vowels"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Help your class recognize the capital and lower-case forms of the five vowels. They will learn how to make capital and lower-case forms of the vowels and all the rules surrounding vowels. Fun songs and activities are included. Links to...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Family and Friends: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Family and Friends is the theme of a unit offering extra support lessons. Follow each lesson plan's teach, blend, guided practice or practice/apply routine to reinforce concepts such as clusters, responding to reading, drawing...
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K12 Reader

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...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Vowel Sounds -- Short Oo Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this short Oo vowel sound word search activity, students locate and circle the 20 short Oo words in the word search puzzle.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Vowel Sound -- Short Ee

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this short Ee vowel sound word search learning exercise, students locate and circle the 20 short Ee words in the word search puzzle.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Vowel Sounds -- Short Ee Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this short Ee vowel sound practice worksheet, students use their problems solving skills to unscramble 20 words that feature the short e sound.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowels: Read and Color

For Students K - 2nd
In this short vowel worksheet, students read words inside of pictures that have a short vowel sound, then use a color key to color correctly. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
Worksheet
Curated OER

School-Home Links: Short Vowels

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this short vowels with the same ending phonics activity, students and their caregivers read 8 words and then write the 8 words in 1 of 2 columns based on the end sound of each word.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Book Of Vowels - Long and Short Vowel Sounds

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students study letters. In this vowel sounds lesson, students distinguish between long and short vowels. They work independently to make a book of the two types of vowels.
Lesson Plan
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Icky Insect Is In Icky Sticky Ink

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Practice the strategy of letter-sound correspondence when identifying the short vowel /i/ sound in written and spoken words. The teacher recites the tongue twister "Icky insect is in icky sticky ink," while listeners repeat. Letter boxes...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Itchy Ritchy

For Teachers K - 1st
Itchy Ritchy can help your learners remember the /i/ sound! First teach young learners the fun tongue twister illustrating the target sound, and have them identify the target sound in other words. Use the reading Tim and the Top to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ehhhh?

For Teachers K - 1st
Are your kindergarten learners working with the letter e and the sounds that is makes? They'll practice writing a capital e, hear the /e/ sound in a funny tongue twister, and then identify when the teacher is saying a word that uses...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Short A Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars study the short "a" sound. In this word study lesson, students brainstorm words that begin with a short "a" sound and are given a picture of the word. Young scholars play an online game to reinforce the concepts taught.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel Oo

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this short o sound worksheet, students use the secret code box to help them spell some short Oo words. Students then draw a picture of the four words.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel Activity

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this short vowel worksheet, students place an X through bubbles that contain words with short vowel sounds and circle bubbles whose vowels have long sounds.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Bubble Pop-Short Vowels

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this short vowel worksheet, students place an X over bubbles that have words with short vowel sounds printed on them. A website reference for additional resources is given.
Lesson Plan
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Ehhh...What'd you say?

For Teachers K - 1st
Practice pronouncing and spelling words with the /e/ sound with spellers. They blend phonemes with spelling maps to master important representation and letter symbol of the short vowel /e/. They also make sock puppets and study the...
Worksheet
Kelly's Kindergarten

Kelly's Kindergarten: A Words

For Students K - 1st Standards
If the cat in the hat had a fan and a can, what would they all have in common? The short a sound! Youngsters cut and paste images of words with the short a sound, and then practice writing the words beneath each picture.
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K12 Reader

The Kid Will Win a Ship

For Students 1st Standards
Which word included the short /i/ sound: pirate or ship? Work on the short /i/ sound with your class by using the short poem provided here. Class members read the poem and answer three reading comprehension questions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Odd One Out

For Students Pre-K - K
There is one object that doesn't belong in each of these sets. Scholars circle the one that doesn't rhyme, listening for the /o/ vowel sound (long and short) in the others. They connect two of the objects to printing practice,...