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Consonant Blends Blended with Short Vowels
Here is a simple, yet effective lesson on consonant blends. Young readers watch as the teacher demonstrates voiced phonic sounds, unvoiced phonic sounds, and voiced vowel sounds. They practice rhyming consonant blends and trigraphs.
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CVC Words
Use this colorful and easy-to-understand presentation to help kindergartners review words with the short a sound. With words such as van, man, can, and fan, learners practice reading skills. While short, this resource could be augmented...
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Match the Rhymes
Focus on the short u sound in this rhyme worksheet for emergent readers. Learners examine images surrounding a jug, drawing lines to connect it to those that rhyme (bug, rug, mug). Then, they practice their printing by tracing the...
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A World of Animals: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 10)
Provide extra support with this collection of animal-themed lessons. Early readers gain proficiency in high frequency words are and he, practice blending short vowel sounds, and substitute initial and final phonemes while creating...
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Long and Short Vowel E
in this long and short vowel e worksheet, learners color pictures of flowers with short vowel e words orange, and those with long vowel e words purple. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Short A Puzzle Game
In this short A puzzle game activity, students match 24 short A words with the pictures on puzzle pieces that the teacher has printed, cut and laminated.
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Short Vowels Sorting
For this phonics worksheet, pupils investigate the sounds of short E, short O and short U vowels. Students read and compare 24 words and sort them into the correct place on the chart.
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Short Vowels 1
In this vowel sounds worksheet, students study each picture and circle the images with names that have short A words. Students put an 'x' on the images with names that have short I words.
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International Phonetic Alphabet - Vowels 1
In this phonics practice instructional activity, students identify as many words as possible with the short i sound, the ee sound, and y sound. Answers should be recorded in the appropriate columns on the graphic organizer.
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Suppressing Short O
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'o' and the short /o/ sound. They recite short /o/ tongue twisters, practice writing the letter 'o', and listen to stories, identifying words with the short /o/...
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Long and Short Vowel A
In this long and short A activity, 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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Vocabulary Reading Test
For this vocabulary with short vowel words worksheet, students write the word that the teacher says, then writes a sentence for one of the words.
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Sinbad Scats
In this trace and write worksheet, students trace and write words that contain short vowels in each of the words. Students trace and write 8 lines.
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Short /a/ Words
In this short a words activity, students draw a line to match the short a words with their pictures. Students complete 5 matches.
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Short /e/ Words
In this short e words worksheet, students fill in the first letter to the short e words and then write them 2 more times. Students complete this for 5 words.
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Short Vowels - Short Uu Words
In this short u words worksheet, 1st graders use the word bank of short u words to help them unscramble the 20 words. Students write the short u words on the lines.
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Short Vowel e
In this short e sound learning exercise, 1st graders use the word bank to complete the sentences and the picture word to help with the order of the sentence.
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Short Vowel U
In this short u sound learning exercise, 1st graders use the word bank with short u words to complete the sentences. Students use the picture words to help them order the sentence.
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Short Vowel U
In this short u sound worksheet, 1st graders use the secret code box to help them spell words that contain the short u sound. Students write the word on the lines and draw pictures of it.
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan
Pupils recognize and spell sets of words with r-controlled vowels. They become familiar with r-controlled spelling patterns.
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Ehhhh?
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 the...
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Iggy the Penguin
Take your young word detectives on a hunt for the /i/ sound. Use the tongue twister about Iggy the penguin to help learners identify the target sound. Then learners are given several words, and they have to use their detective skills to...
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CVC Activity
Identify sounds and letters in words. Eight pictures are provided with letters for learners to circle and write out. These basic cvc words will help children as they begin reading and writing.
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CVC Activity 2
Look at eight pictures to practice cvc words. Letters are given for each picture and learners first circle the correct letters, then write the word below. More practice worksheets like this are available.