Curated OER
Short Vowels
Learners will create a list of short vowel sound words and participate in computer phonics activities to practice. They will read an interactive storybook online. Next, they will complete words in order to better understand short vowel...
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 1 - Short Vowels
Apple, Adam, and At all have something in common. What is it? They all start with the short A sound. The first lesson plan of set in the Word Recognition and Fluency series introduces readers to short vowel sounds with a series of...
Progressive Phonics
Short Vowel “A” Activity Worksheets
24 activities make up this phonics activity book that focuses on the short vowel /a/. Early readers take part in tracing, filling in the blanks, coloring, finding differences in pictures, and completing mazes while using letters s, r,...
Curated OER
Short Vowel Sounds
Use this resource to provide a quick review of words with short vowel sounds. Learners view pictures, and read and write words with the short vowel sound o. Afterwards, they write a sentence using some of the short o words. Students...
Curated OER
Vowel Sounds: e
"Eh?" That is the short vowel sound the letter e makes when it is used in the middle of a word. Little ones will draw a line between the letter e and objects that make the short e sound. Then they will fill in the missing e in six...
Curated OER
Word Washer Vowels
Here is a perfect activity for all your kinesthetic learners. They practice long and short vowel discrimination as they hang out the paper articles of clothing on a clothes line. They each take turns pulling word clothes out of a pretend...
Curated OER
Vocabulary Building: Short Vowels III
In this recognizing words pronounced with short vowels worksheet, students write the words from dictation, unscramble their letters, and create sentences using the words January, September, February, happen, every, and study. Students...
Curated OER
Vowel Sounds: A
Say aaaaa, because today your class will be practicing the short a vowel sound. They complete two activities. First the draw a line from the letter a to the objects that contain the medial /a/ sound. Then, they fill in the missing a to...
Curated OER
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.
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: Short /u/ Sound Words
From hugs to the sun, you can find many great words with the short /u/ sound! Your youngsters will do just that with this worksheet, in which they identify words with the short /u/ sound from a selection of provided images, and then...
Lerner Publishing
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.
Curated OER
Short Vowel A Sound
In this short vowel a learning exercise, students say the names of 4 pictures with the short vowel a sound, then color the pictures. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Curated OER
Short Vowel U Sound
For this short vowel u worksheet, students say the names of pictures with the short u sound, then color each of the 4 pictures. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Curated OER
Short Vowel A Activity
In this short vowel a instructional activity, learners 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.
Curated OER
Short Vowel A-Read and Print
In this short vowel a worksheet, learners 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.
Curated OER
Short Vowels With Clifford
Phonetic masters identify and recognize short vowel sounds by reading and listening to a story that highlights select words. They use picture clues to aid comprehension and construct a story by actively choosing and identifying...
Curated OER
Identification of Short Vowels
First graders identify words. In this short vowels lesson, 1st graders identify words that have the short /e/ sound. They work either independently or in a small group to sort picture cards into "yes" or "no" stacks depending on if it...
Curated OER
Short Vowel Words
In this short vowel words worksheet, students choose the correct word to match a picture, write vowel sounds, fill in letters to words, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
Curated OER
Short Vowel U: Color the Pictures
In this short vowel u worksheet, learners color pictures that have short u words printed inside. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Curated OER
Short Vowel U: Circle and Print
In this short vowel u worksheet, students circle the word in a pair that has the short u sound, then print the word on provided lines. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Curated OER
The Long and the Short!: a
Recognize the long /a/ sound and the short /a/ sound with this activity. Readers will observe picture words and categorize the names in the long vowel words and short vowel words columns. Then match 8 short answers.
Curated OER
Vowel Sound: u
Which of these have /u/ as a middle sound? There are images of seven CVC words surrounding the letter u here, and scholars draw lines from the letter to words with the same middle phoneme. Be sure they know what these images are...
Curated OER
Short Vowels
In this phonics practice learning exercise, learners examine 5 pictures and identify each picture by writing the short vowel words for each of them on the lines provided.
Curated OER
Short Vowel Words
In this phonics practice worksheet, students examine 6 pictures and identify each picture by writing the short vowel words for each of them on the lines provided.