Spinning Short Vowel Game

Early readers use words with short vowels to complete sentences, referencing a word bank. They choose four and five letter words from a word bank like wish, sun, and fast to complete 10 simple sentences. 

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. 

In this short vowel activity, students use short vowel words from a word box to complete a set of 10 sentences, filling in the blanks.

Who knew short vowel sounds could be so much fun? Beginning readers use picture cards, things around the room, and simple worksheets to practice with the short a, short e, short i, short o, and short u sounds. 

Get your groove on with a music video showcasing short vowels! Throughout the song, each vowel's letter name, sound, and example word is identified with a cool disco beat.

Get those kids ready to read with increased phonemic awareness! Children in grades K-2 will participate in a variety of stimulating activities to practice sounding out, identifying, and reading simple cvc words. Pupils will sign, sing,...

Vowel letters of the alphabet and the sounds associated with the vowel are the focus of this lesson. Young scholars distinguish between both long and short vowel sounds by reading, writing, speaking, and listening to the words and...

Are you teaching long and short vowel words? Use this board game to review with your class! Unfortunately, neither the word cards nor the answers are included, but both are easy to create. 

Students identify short vowel sounds.  In this vowel sounds lesson, students play the popular game Twister using short vowel sound cards in place of the Twister mat.  Printable short vowel sound cards are included in this lesson.

Scholars identify vowel sounds. In this word study lesson, they read the book Fish is Fish and go "vowel fishing." Pupils simulate a fishing trip by picking up fish cut-outs with a short vowel sound written on the fish. Then they sound...