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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 /o/ Words
In this short o words worksheet, students draw a line to match the short o words with their pictures. Students complete 5 matches.
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Short /u/ Words
In this short u words worksheet, students add the first letter of the short u words given to them. Students complete this for 5 words total.
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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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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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Phonics Coloring Worksheet
In this phonics worksheet, students decided what word on the picture is a short vowel sound. The students color different vowel sounds different colors.
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Short E and Long E
In this long e and short e practice worksheet, learners study 16 examples of word pairs that feature the long and short e sounds.
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Spelling List 13: Sight Words, Short /ou/ Sound, and Academic Vocabulary
In this spelling list worksheet, students practice spelling words that are sight words, ou sounds, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 16 words total.
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Long -oo and Short -oo
When two Os are put together in a word, a long -oo or a short -oo sound are produced. Learners examine two slides that have pictures and decide if the word depicted has the long -oo or short -oo sound. Examples are: football, hood, and...
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Between the Lions: Exploring Short-Vowel Sounds
Students review the short sounds of a, e, i, o, and u previously discussed in class. They read and be able to identify words that have short-vowel sounds and become familiar with the basic navigational features of a website.
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Spotting Hidden Vowels
First graders recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Spelling: Short Vowel Review
In this spelling worksheet students copy a set of 6 short vowel words. Parents are given suggestions to help students study and learn the words.
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Spelling: Short Vowel Sounds
In this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 20 short vowel words. Parents are given suggestions for helping students study and learn the words.
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Yep, I'm Ready to Learn!
Tongue twisters give young learners an easy phrase to refer back to when learning letter sounds. Use the phrase "Eddy put red bells on everyone's bed" to identify the /e/ sound. Then read Red Gets Fed aloud, having learners nod their...
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Zac The Rat
In this literacy activity, students complete words with the short /a/ vowel sound. They use the pictures for clues.
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Color the Bubbles
In this long and short vowel worksheet, students decide if each word in one of 12 bubbles has a long or short vowel U. Students color the long vowel words blue, and the short vowel words green.
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Food Pyramid
Here is an engaging cross-curicular lesson which incorporates elements of language arts and heatlh. Groups of learners are assigned to one vowel sound. They work together to find pictures of food out of a booklet that have the long vowel...
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Animated Alphabet
Students explore English by completing an interactive language history activity. In this word recognition lesson, students discuss word formations and the phonetic relationship between letters. Students identify the origin of individual...
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All Together Now: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)
All Together Now is the theme of this series of ESL lessons. Provide support to your language learners through games, role play, stories, and discussions all about greeting others, giving commands, telling about themselves, and being...
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Build A Word With "o" as the Short Mid Vowel
In this short "o" build a word worksheet, 1st graders look at 6 black line pictures before finding the letters that spell the name of each. They say the name, choose the letters including the middle "o", and write the name of the item on...
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Short "u" vowel
First graders successfully build words containing the short "u" vowel. They connect letter cards with an accuracy of 90%. Students build on phonics as well. They encounter within this lesson sequencing.
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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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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 U Label the Picture
In this language arts learning exercise, students examine a detailed picture of a child's room. Students use the word bank to label the picture with six nouns using the short vowel /u/ sound.