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Free Reading

Free Reading: Building a Sentence Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity teaching the short vowel sounds and how they are used in a sentence. The students put together sentences that are cut apart and then identify the sounds of the targeted vowel.
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Unit Plan
Starfall

Starfall: Y Can Be a Vowel

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Discover how and when the letter "y" can act as a vowel. This site features an audio and video component exploring this topic. Students and teachers will benefit from this entertaining resource.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Long and Short Vowel Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students examine word and letter patterns to determine long and short vowel sounds.
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Quia

Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean?

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site offers flash cards for practicing vowel sounds. On one side of the card is a word; on the other is the vowel sound, such as long e. Students try to determine the vowel sound when they read the word; then check to see if they...
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Quia

Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Concentration

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a matching and memory game which requires students to not only match words with their vowel sounds, but also to remember their covered location on the grid of boxes.
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Interactive
Other

Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: The Big Hit (Short I Listening Practice)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
English language learners and beginning readers can practice listening to and pronouncing the short I sound in this read-aloud story about a baseball-playing tin man. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner controlled.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Peg the Hen (Short E Listening Practice)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
English language learners and beginning readers can listen as they read this wonderfully animated story about Peg the Hen. Excellent drill for learning to pronounce the short E sound with excellent reinforcement of basic vocabulary...
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Graphic
Other

Make, Take, & Teach: Long I Vowel Sound Word List [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Use this list to master the letter combinations which create the long i sound in English words.
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Hunt Tally: A Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students play detective and discover a given letter at the beginning of a word. They keep a "tally" sheet and compete with their classmates. This site includes links to Letter cards and a Letter Hunt Tally Sheet.
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Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Race Game: Letter Sound Fluency

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 1

For Students 2nd Standards
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this sorting game.
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 2

For Students 2nd Standards
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this online sorting game.
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 3

For Students 2nd Standards
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this online sorting game.
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Interactive
Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 4

For Students 2nd Standards
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this online sorting game.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Learn to Read

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
There are 15 easy-to-read stories, each focusing on a particular vowel sounds; it also provides quizzes using the same long and short vowel sounds. In addition there are alphabet videos.
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Quia

Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Matching

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a matching game in which students match the word in yellow blocks with the vowel sounds in blue boxes by clicking on them consecutively.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Word Machines: Short A

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this interactive, student learn to pronounce and produce rhyming words containing the short A sound. Using the word maching, students can change the beginning or the ending sounds to make new words which are then clearly pronounced.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Short Vowel Sounds

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps early readers look more in depth at the short vowel sounds and requires them to identify, create, and write words that contain short vowel sounds.
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Unit Plan
Other

Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.
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School Express

Schoolexpress.com: Long and Short Vowel Worksheets

For Students 3rd - 5th
Teachers will find an assortment of detailed worksheets that engage students learning in vowels.
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short Vowel Lessons Review

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor reviews words that incorporate short vowels in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words sounded...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short U Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short "u" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...
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Unit Plan
St. Charles Place Education Foundation

Reading Bear: Short O Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short /o/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...

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