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Teaching Vowel Combinations
Need some fun activities to augment your lessons on vowel patterns and phonemic awareness? Peruse a series of worksheets designed to help little ones with their early reading skills.
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Connect the Rhymes
Pre-readers benefit from visual context clues like the ones in this rhyme worksheet. There are two sets of objects here, and scholars connect objects on the left with their rhyming counterparts on the right. Each word has the vowel...
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Find the Rhyme
Find the rhyming word. All of these rhyming, single-syllable words have the short i sound, but learners have to determine which ones they are. There are four starting objects each heading a row of three objects. They examine the three,...
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Long and Short Vowel Sounds
In this vowel sounds worksheet, students identify the long and short vowel sounds in the given words. Student color the long vowels green and the short vowels yellow.
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Short Vowel "e"
In this short vowel "e" learning exercise, students practice their phonics skills as they examine 6 pictures and matching words that feature the letter. Students bracket the short "e" sound in 5 words. An example is included.
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Short Vowel "o"
In this short vowel "o" worksheet, students practice their phonics skills as they examine 6 pictures and matching words that feature the letter. Students bracket the short "o" sound in 5 words. An example is included.
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Kelly's Kindergarten: Long/Short E
Kindergartners will cut, paste, and label the words that contain a short or long e sound. They can build their phonemic awareness as they say each word to determine which e goes where.
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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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Identifying Pictures With the Short O Sound
In this identifying pictures with the short o sound worksheet, 1st graders say the word for each short o picture, then color the four pictures.
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Coloring A Short Vowel Picture
In this short vowels coloring worksheet, students read 15 short vowel words printed in a drawing of a chicken. Students use the key to color the sections correctly in the picture.
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Words with Short A, I, O, and E #4
In this short vowel sounds learning exercise, students match words to pictures, complete sentences, write words that represent pictures, and more. Students complete 4 activities total.
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Short Vowel A Activity
In this short vowel a worksheet, students first read a set of short vowel a words that do not rhyme, then read and circle short vowel a words that appear in a word box, printing them on lines beside the word box.
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Short Vowel A: Words That Do Not Rhyme
In this short A words worksheet, students read 15 words in a box that all have the vowel A. Students circle and then write all the short vowel words.
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Short Vowel A: Find and Circle
In this short A words worksheet, students read 15 words in a box that all have the letter A. Students circle all the short vowel words and write them on the lines.
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Short Vowel A-Read and Print
In this short vowel a worksheet, students first read a set of short a words that do not rhyme, then read words in a word box, circling short a words and print each one. Worksheet contains a web site reference for additional activities.
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Short Vowel A-Read and Print
In this short vowel a learning exercise, students first read a set of short vowel words that do not rhyme, then read and circle short a words in a word box and print each word 1 time.
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Short A Sentences
Emergent readers use picture clues to identify the missing word in six fill-in-the-blank sentences. This reinforces the strategy of using the pictures in stories to help define unknown vocabulary. If you have time, consider having...
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Worksheet Set: Super Phonics Level 2
Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...
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Short A Vowel Sound
In this short a sound worksheet, 1st graders say the word for each picture and circle one letter from each column for the beginning, middle, and final sound. Students then write the word in the provided space. Students read a list of...
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Short Vowel Activities
In this short vowel worksheet, students place an X through bubbles with short vowel words printed on them. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Wild for Watermelon
In this multiple skills worksheet, learners identify long and short vowel sounds in words and sequence the life cycle of a watermelon. Students write 14 answers.
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Zac the Rat
In this language arts activity, students investigate the short vowel sound /a/. Learners rhyme and write words corresponding to a picture.
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Vowel Sounds - Short Uu Words
In this short u words activity, 1st graders use the alphabet and number code to find the words that contain short u sounds. Students write the 20 words on the lines and may use the word bank for help.
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Short and Long Vowel Sounds for Primary Grades
In this short and long vowel sounds for primary grades worksheet, students look at 15 words and circle the ones that match the sound of the given word, not interactively, with different words and answers available online.