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Vowel Sounds - Short i Words Anagram
In this vowel sound worksheet, 2nd graders complete 20 number/letter problems. They match the numbers to the corresponding letters to write 20 words that contain the short i sound.
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Word Center
Construct spelling words through a Making Words activity. Learners create words at various levels using onsets, rimes, suffixes, long and short vowels, and word families. They write words as they create them and compare the words with...
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The Doctor Said Open Up and Say /o/
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /o/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter O. Students then listen to the book "In the Big Top," and write down the words from the...
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Uggy the Umbrella Went Up, Up, Up!
Young scholars explore the short /u/ sound. They practice making the sound, noticing how their mouths move to make the sound. They recite tongue twisters with short /u/ words and practice writing the letter 'u'. With a partner, they...
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Hop on Pop - Short 'o'
Students practice the alphabetic significance of the letter /o/ along with its awareness of phonemes in spoken words. They assess on construction paper the phrase, "We like to hop on top of Pop who's on top of a hot rock" written on it...
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CVC Cloze: Middle u
In this cloze activity learning exercise, students use their reading comprehension skills to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with CVC words that have the short u sound. Students list as many other CVC short u sound words as possible.
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CVC Spelling
For this spelling worksheet, 1st graders will focus on spelling CVC words. Students will study 7 pictures and choose the correct letters for the beginning, middle, and ending sounds before writing the complete word three times each on...
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Does it Have a Long I or a Short I
In this phonics instructional activity, students say the name of each of twelve pictures. They identify circle either the long i or short i symbol to tell which sound is in the picture.
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CVC Cloze: Middle a
In this CVC cloze activity worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with CVC words that have the short a sound. Students also list as many other CVC words with the short a sound as possible.
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CVC Cloze: Middle e
In this CVC cloze activity worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with CVC words that have the short e sound. Students also list as many other CVC words with the short e sound as possible.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 6: Short A, Long A
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words that have both long and short sound of vowel A. Students write each word one time. There are additional at-home activities listed.
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Olly Olly Oxenfree
Students review short vowel sounds. They complete a variety of activities as they discover how to say the short /o/ sound, write the letter 'o', and pronounce words with the short /o/ sound. They read stories with short /o/ words in them.
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Sticky Ricky!
Students explore letters and phonemes. They identify the short vowel i in spoken and written words. Students discuss a meaningful representation for the sound. They practice reading and spelling words with the i sound. Students read "Tin...
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Icky Icky I
First graders review the letter "i" and use popsicle sticks and cotton balls to make upper and lower case "i's". Volunteers make the capital and lower case "i" on the board and then the class discovers the short sound that letter "i"...
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Language Arts: Becoming Fluent Readers
First graders develop letter-sound correspondence skills by segmenting words according to their phonemes. Using letter tiles and letter boxes, they spell words called by the teacher. After reading several books with the teacher, 1st...
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Aaa-aaa-aaa-choo!!
Students study the /a/ sound by mimicking the sound one makes when they sneeze. Next they work with a tongue twister, which they recite while stretching out the initial short a sound. Next, they practice writing the letter and read "A...
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 6: Vowels oo
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. Some contain long or short vowel "oo" sound. Students write each word one time on the lines.
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Vowel Sounds - Short Ii Words
In this vowel sounds worksheet, students unscramble 20 short i words using the words in the word bank at the bottom of the page as clues.
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Animal Alphabet
Students make a class animal book using the letters of the alphabet. They use a website imbedded in this plan to get pages with animals that begin with any of the 26 letters.
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Ben's Bedroom
In this consonant B activity, students read ten words and circle each one that begins with the same sound as ball. Students then color in the picture with vibrant colors.
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The Big Hit
In this reading instructional activity, students practice reading words with short /i/ by making an eight-page booklet. Students read the story about a tin man who plays baseball.
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Shy Tyrone
For this identifying long and short i words worksheet, students cut pictures with words using the long and short i vowels and paste them in categories according to their sounds. Students solve 8 problems.
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Indiana Igloo
Your young charges practice identifying the /i/ sound in this lesson. The class looks at words on cards and identifies which word has the target sound. They continue their practice using Elkonin letterboxes to spell words with the /i/...
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Vowels
In this grammar worksheet, students read ten sentences where the vowel is missing in some of the words. They put the correct vowel in the space to make each sentence make sense. Students also identify whether each word is a short or long...