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Spelling List 22: Sight Words, Short /u/ words, and Academic Vocabulary
For this spelling worksheet, students practice their spelling words that include sight words, short u words, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 21 words.
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Spelling List 2: Sight Words, Short i/o/u Words, and Academic Vocabulary
In this spelling list worksheet, students practice spelling words that are sight words, short u words, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words total.
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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...
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Long and Short Vowel A
For this long and short A worksheet, students read the words inside of ten teddy bears. Students color the long A words purple and the short A words brown.
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Short A and Short O
In this short a and short o worksheet, students match pictures to words that have the short a and short o in them. Students complete 15 matches total.
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Vocabulary Building: Unusual short u
In this short u learning exercise, students write 6 words as they are called out, unscramble words and use them in sentences. All words have short u in an "unusual" way.
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Home Spelling Practice: Syllabication Patterns: Short Vowels
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. All words have short vowel sounds with two or three syllables. Students write each word one time on the lines. There are additional at-home spelling activities...
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Aches and Pains
Being able to distinguish between short and long vowel /a/ sounds is an important skill for young readers. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice reading...
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How Many Feet Will We Meet?
Emerging speakers distinguish between the sounds for short vowel /e/ and long vowel /e/. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise the long vowel sounds, with emphasis on /ee/. They practice reading and spelling a variety...
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A-Okay
Learners distinguish between short and long vowel /a/ sounds. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. Then they practice identifying words with the...
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We Flew With a Baboon
More vowels? Elementary schoolers recognize how vowel patterns change a short vowel sound into a long vowel sound. With an emphasis on the /oo/ that makes the long U sound, kids identify the phoneme and letter combination through...
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Peachy Teacup by the Stream
Help your kids distinguish between the sounds for short vowel /e/ and long vowel /e/. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on /ea/. They practice reading and spelling a...
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Bee a Reader
Use a fun tongue twister to help your class remember the /ee/ sound! With this lesson, they distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds,...
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Icky Sticky Fingers
Practice recognizing the short vowel /i/ in written and spoken language. Introduce the target sound with a fun tongue twister about Lizzy the lizard. Through matching and listening activities, learners discriminate the vowel sound /i/...
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Novel Lesson for The Giver
Lois Lowry's The Giver is one of the most engaging and thought-provoking works of literature in the middle school curriculum. Round out your novel unit with a collection of reading activities, comprehension questions, memoir and...
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Peg the Hen
In this language arts instructional activity, students look at pictures and write words that rhyme with "hen". All examples are written in DeNelian font.
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Vowel Sounds - Short Uu Words
In this short u words worksheet, 1st graders use the alphabet and number code to find the words that contain short u sounds. Students write the 20 words on the lines and may use the word bank for help.
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Short and Long Vowel Sounds for Primary Grades
In this short and long vowel sounds for primary grades worksheet, students look at 15 words and circle the ones that match the sound of the given word, not interactively, with different words and answers available online.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 6: Short U, Long U
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words that have the sound of short or long vowel U. Students write the words one time. There are additional suggestions on the page for at-home activities.
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Short A Words
Young scholars study the short "a" sound. In this word study lesson plan, 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.
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Short Sound of A Word Shapes
In this word shapes worksheet, students write the 14 short a words from a word bank in the correct word shapes. They work with words such as grapple, cap, math, pattern, and granite.
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Short O Label the Picture
In this language arts instructional activity, students examine a detailed picture depicting a group of animals on a camping trip. Students label six short/o/ nouns in the picture using the word bank.
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Long or Short Vowels?
In this vowel worksheet, students sort a set of words found in a picture of a fish bowl into columns according o their vowel sound. Vowels a, e and i are used.
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Phonics
This short, 6-slide presentation provides practice for very young readers in decoding simple words that utilize the short vowel sounds. Words such as cat, sit, hop, and dog are read by pupils.