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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Short and Long Vowel Discrimination

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Short and long vowel practice.
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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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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Ug

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Interactive word game. Match the initial sound to spell the short vowel picture word. Vocabulary words: mug, hug, rug, bug.
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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: Make a Word: Ink

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Interactive word game uses picture cues. Make a word by dragging the letter tiles to spell each short vowel word.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: 2nd Grade Act. 10: R E L a T I O N S H I P S

For Teachers 2nd Standards
This lesson engages students in making short words. Students will regroup the short words into word families and discuss the findings with classmates.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Long Vowel E

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Flipchart students will read and group words with long e vowel sounds according to spelling ee or ea (short e will also be reviewed). Students will also use Activotes to select correct word...
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Interactive
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Phonics: Phonics and Spelling Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site is a phonics quiz in which students read the instructions, such as "find the word with a short "a" sound;" then they select the correct answer.
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ay" Sound

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Complete words with the "ay" phoneme to create a long "a" sound in this interactive game. Just download the game and complete the words to help Mango the baby bird fly with her friends.
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Aw" Sound

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Download this game to practice words containing the "aw" phoneme. Drag the phoneme into the correct part of the word to help a baby bird named Mango fly with her friends.
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ea" Sound

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Download this free interactive game to help a baby bird fly with her friends by building words that use the phoneme "ea" to create the long "e" sound.
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A game where players can create words with the long "e" sound created by a double "e."
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ow" Sound 2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Download this free game and help a baby bird fly with her friends by completing words that use the "ow" phoneme to create the long "o" sound.
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Oy" Sound

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A free game to download that allows students to practice placing the "oy" phoneme into words in order to help a baby bird fly with her friends.
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Interactive
Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A free downloadable interactive game. Help a baby bird fly by making words with a long "a" sound and a silent "e."
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Website
Auburn University

The Reading Genie: Making Friends With Phonemes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Superb explanation of phoneme awareness. Content addresses how to focus on individual phonemes, how to make the phoneme memorable, and how to find phoneme in word contexts.
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Professional Doc
Auburn University

Auburn University: How to Count Phonemes in Spoken Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How do you count phonemes in spoken words? Check out this site to discover more about how to approach dealing with question in the classroom. This site offers exercises dealing with counting phonemes.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Armstrong Atlantic State University: English Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover more about the history of the English language when you visit this informative site. Students and teachers will benefit from this educational resource.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: Rf.2.3.c Worksheets

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of decoding regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.
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Interactive
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Phonics Scramble Games

For Students K - 1st Standards
Phonics Scramble Games includes eight games from which the students can choose, such as "Short A Sound". They are given a picture and a scrambled word. They are to drag the letter blocks to spell the word correctly, check their answer,...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: First Letters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will assist students in recognizing all initial consonant and short vowel sounds (a-z, ch, sh, th) in speech and writing; to identify and write correct initial letters in response to the...
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Make a Word: Ot

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Create short O words. Drag the initial sound to spell the OT word and match the picture. Vocabulary words: cot, hot, dot, pot.
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Unit Plan
ESL4kids

The Efl Playhouse: Phonemic Awareness for Young Language Learners

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A group of ten simple activities easily incorporated into the course of a day to reinforce phonemic awareness.
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Handout
Rutgers University

Rutgers University: History of the English Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a brief description of the history of the English language.