Florida Center for Reading Research
Canned Sort
Give your budding readers practice with vowel sounds using a sorting activity which will especially appeal to kinesthetic learners. They examine two cans, each with a header card attached. The header card words have the same vowel...
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Spelling Success; Vowel Sounds
There is a big difference between the words bit and bite. Learners begin to understand how to differentiate between short and long vowel sounds as they are given a word with a short vowel sound, and then are asked to add a letter to make...
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Short Vowel Movements
Students use gestures to recognize the short vowel sounds. For this cvc lesson, students use a cue to recognize the vowel sound. Students practice various words with the cues.
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Long Vowel or Short Vowel
In this long and short vowel sounds learning exercise, students examine 16 words and identify their vowel sounds as long o, short o, long u, or short u.
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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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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 1: Short A
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 6 words. All words contain the short sound of vowel A. Students write each word one time on the lines. There are additional at-home spelling activities listed.
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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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Color the Bubbles Long And Short Vowel E
Can your learners distinguish between the long and short e sound? Here they color the words with the long /e/ yellow and the words with short /e/ purple.
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Short A Sound
In this writing worksheet, students write the words of 6 pictures. All of the words have a short A vowel sound. Students also draw a picture using 2 of the words.
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Short Vowel Sounds
In this reading worksheet, students match 12 words with their correct picture. All of the words have short vowel sounds, such as pill, bag, and cut.
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Short i, o, and u words
In this learning short vowel sounds worksheet, students name the pictures, say the short i, short o, and short u sound words, and trace the words. Students practice printing eight picture words.
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Words With Short "a"
In this recognizing words pronounced with short "a" worksheet, 2nd graders spell, unscramble, and create sentences using the short "a" vocabulary words add, land, shall, glass, wrap, and catch. Students complete eighteen activities.
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Secret Code Short E Words
In this short E word instructional activity, students use the secret code box to decode a number puzzle and make a short E word. Students then draw a picture of the word. There are four words to decode.
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Vocabulary Building Activity: short i
In this short i worksheet, 2nd graders list seven vocabulary words as they are called out, unscramble seven vocabulary words and then use each one in a complete sentence. Students deal with the words if, it, his, will, with, this and wish.
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Vocabulary Words With Short i 3
In this recognizing words with the short i pronunciation worksheet, students write from dictation, unscramble, and create sentences using the words sink, cliff, ribbon, listen, build, and written. Students write eighteen answers.
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Vocabulary Building: Short e Words III
In this recognizing words with short e instructional activity, students write them from dictation, unscramble their letters, and create sentences using the words dent, kettle, excellent, cent, ready, and heavy. Students complete eighteen...
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Short Vowels
In this phonics worksheet, students discover and experiment writing as many words as they can that have the short vowel sound in each petal. Students then place each word they come up with in each petal.
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Short U - Classification (Person, Animal, Thing)
In this word sort activity, students will sort five short /u/ words into their proper categories: person, animal, or thing. Students will use a word bank with pictures.
K12 Reader
They Go for a Nice Drive
Set aside some time to practice the long /i/ sound when it shows up in words that follow the _i_e pattern. Kids read the short poem, which includes plenty of words that follow this pattern, and then respond to three reading comprehension...
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The Coat Got Soaked on the Boat
This silly story of a family, their pet goat, a coat, and boat will capture your pupils' attention as they work on the long /o/ sound, the oa digraph, and reading comprehension.
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Long and Short Vowel O
In this long and short vowel O learning exercise, students analyze the words inside pencil shapes and color the short vowels blue and the long vowels orange.
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Sounds of Y
In this sounds of y practice learning exercise, students discover that y can be a consonant or a vowel as they respond to 6 questions.
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Short i Sound Words
If you are teaching your young readers about the short vowel sounds, this presentation could be for you! Sixteen simple, 3-letter words appear in this basic PowerPoint. The i's are colored differently than the other two letters in each...
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Letters and Sounds
Use this resource to review letters and sounds with your class. This presentation featuring a list of vowels and consonants could be used in a variety of ways. It could be used to review letters and sounds, have learners name words that...