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Vowel Sounds: A
Say aaaaa, because today your class will be practicing the short a vowel sound. They complete two activities. First the draw a line from the letter a to the objects that contain the medial /a/ sound. Then, they fill in the missing a to...
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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,...
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Vowel Sound: u
Which of these have /u/ as a middle sound? There are images of seven CVC words surrounding the letter u here, and scholars draw lines from the letter to words with the same middle phoneme. Be sure they know what these images are...
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Vocabulary Building: Short Vowels III
For this recognizing words pronounced with short vowels worksheet, students write the words from dictation, unscramble their letters, and create sentences using the words January, September, February, happen, every, and study. Students...
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Short Vowel Sounds
In this reading worksheet, students match 12 words with their correct picture. All of the words have short vowel sounds, such as pill, bag, and cut.
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CVC Word Cards
Learners explore short vowel sounds as they cut out these seventy word cards. The cards may be used in a variety of classroom activities. Make games out of word recognition such as grouping together the rhyming words, trying to toss the...
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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...
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Short Vowel A Activity
In this short vowel a activity, students first read a set of short vowel a words that do not rhyme, then read and circle short vowel a words that appear in a word box, printing them on lines beside the word box.
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Word Center
Construct spelling words through a Making Words activity. Learners create words at various levels using onsets, rimes, suffixes, long and short vowels, and word families. They write words as they create them and compare the words with...
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Short vowel e
In this short vowel e worksheet, students read the words containing the short vowel e sound and write the words on the line. Students print 10 short vowel e words.
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Short vowel e
In this short vowel e worksheet, students read the short vowel e words and write the words on the lines. Students write 10 words.
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Short Vowel e
In this short vowel e worksheet, students cut and paste the short vowel e words to match up with the correct picture. Students do this for 6 words.
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Lesson 2 - Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words
Closed syllable words contain short vowel sounds. A phonics lessons introduces readers to consonant-vowel-consonant words. Guided instruction introduces the words with a series of dictation activities, and then learners practice reading...
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Teaching Vowel Combinations
Need some fun activities to augment your lessons on vowel patterns and phonemic awareness? Peruse a series of worksheets designed to help little ones with their early reading skills.
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Rhyming Words: The Ut Family
What a great resource! Learners can review words with short vowel sounds, such as bun, bus, and hut using this presentation. The slides are easy to understand and colorful. This would be a quick way to review these words either in a...
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Reading Matching Exercise
In this reading worksheet, learners match four phrases to four pictures. The four phrases are short descriptions using sight words and short vowel words with cvc patterns. Cut out the sentence fragments and pictures to move them around...
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Short Vowels
In this short vowel worksheet, students use short vowel words from a word box to complete a set of 10 sentences, filling in the blanks.
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Worksheet Set: Super Phonics Level 2
Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...
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Short Vowel A-Read and Print
In this short vowel a worksheet, students first read a set of short vowel words that do not rhyme, then read and circle short a words in a word box and print each word 1 time.
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Short Vowel A: Find and Circle
In this short A words worksheet, students read 15 words in a box that all have the letter A. Students circle all the short vowel words and write them on the lines.
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Short Vowel A-Read and Print
In this short vowel a activity, students first read a set of short a words that do not rhyme, then read words in a word box, circling short a words and print each one. Worksheet contains a web site reference for additional activities.
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Short vowel i: trace and write
In this short vowel i words learning exercise, students trace and write words that containing the short vowel i. Students trace and write 16 words.
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Short "E" Searching
Students engage in a lesson which uses resources from the PBS show, Between the Lions to help identify the sound "e" in words that are written, read and sung.
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Short Vowels Coloring Page
In this short vowels worksheet, students analyze a picture of a dog who is fishing. Students read the words that are typed in different parts of the picture. Using the key, students color the short vowel word areas the correct colors.