A colorful presentation on common vowel blends awaits your class. Each of the 25 slides has a two-letter vowel blend in a large circle, accompanied by a smaller circle that has the phonetic sound that the blend makes. Pretty fish and...

The vowel/consonant/vowel combination of /i_e/ is one of the most common in our language. In this lesson, kindergarterners share the book, The Doctor's Line to gain practice in reading these kind of words. A brainstorm session...

Is your child learning the double vowel long e sound? Have your learner point to the picture, say both words the box, and choose which word uses the target vowel sound. 

Focus on the oo vowel sound using this resource. Using a list of words and sentences, learners practice reading and spelling with this sound. It is a complete and visually-attractive presentation.

The vowel blend "oo" produces two different sounds. The words book and cool are examples of that. Young readers view slides that have pictures of words that use this blend, and they practice distinguishing between each sound.

Here is a learning exercise in which young children have to complete the words provided by using the letter i, o, or u. There are eight cartoon drawings that depict each of the words, so figuring out what the word should sound like...

Kindergarteners spell patterns of the long vowel phoneme /ay/. After listenting to The Birthday Day, learners work together to construct a class book that utilizes words that end in /ay/. Since the /ay/ phoneme is used so much...

Kindergarteners identify the long vowel sound /ai/ in speech and writing. The whole class shares the book, Daisy the Snail, then brainstorms as many /ai/ words as they can. The class constructs a word wall with the /ai/ words.

The long vowel phoneme /y/ is the star of this language arts lesson. Kindergarteners share the book, I Spy a Little Fly then brainstorm more words that end in /y/. Since so many of our words end in /y/, this would be a very...

Here is a collection of wroksheets that give young readers a chance to practice identifying words that use a long vowel sound. Each of the puzzles, if correctly done, spells out a letter once the shading is complete. While not the...

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/...

Help young readers recognize the short vowel /a/ in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Learners associate the phoneme with its letter...

Young learners practice spelling and phonics with this quick vowel instructional activity. For each of the seven words provided, they must unscramble the letters and write the full word on the line provided.

What do "milk," "rich," and "fix" have in common? They all have short "i" sounds, and they're all featured on this matching worksheet, along with twelve other words and definitions. Students who are struggling with vowel sounds will...

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...

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.

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...

Who says your budding readers are too young for crossword puzzles? Scholars use visual clues instead of written ones to complete single-syllable words. They fill in the initial letter for each of six words, and a second letter for one of...

For this long vowel u words worksheet, students read words and circle the ones that have the long u sound in them. Students read 24 words total.

In this word completion worksheet, students view eight illustrations of summer objects and fill in the missing vowels for each of the given words.

In this language arts learning exercise, learners recognize the difference between vowels and consonants by tracing a path through a maze. In this frog-themed page students follow the trail of consonants to the end of the puzzle, which...

In this short vowel learning exercise, 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.

In this recognizing words with the e vowel combinations ee, ea, eu/ew, and ei/ey/eigh activity, students identify words with e vowel combinations. Students underline 33 answers.

In this long vowel letter o worksheet, students say the name of the picture and fill in the missing o in the word. Students fill in 3 missing letters.