Core Knowledge Foundation
Kindergarten Skills Unit 10
A six-week unit wraps up kindergarteners' skills practice in beginning reading skills. Twenty-nine lessons focus on long vowel sounds and 11 tricky high-frequency words. Scholars participate in warm-up activities, introductions to sounds...
Core Knowledge Foundation
First Grade Skills Unit 2
Nineteen lessons make-up a four-week-long unit that explores long vowel sounds, nouns, and 11 high-frequency words. Lessons scaffold information to gain confidence in reading a decodable text and answering questions. Routines include...
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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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ESL: Long Vowel Activity
In this ESL long vowel worksheet, students write words for pictures that contain a long vowel sound. Students may click on a sound icon to hear the word if necessary.
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Long Vowels, Silent E Rule Practice
In this long vowel, silent e worksheet, students fill in missing letters in "silent e" words to correctly complete sentences, 8 total.
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Long Vowel Worksheet
In this long vowel worksheet, students fill in the long vowel that correctly completes a word, then draws a line to the matching picture. An example is completed for students.
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Long Vowels Worksheet
In this long vowel worksheet, students write the long vowel that correctly completes a word, then draws a line to match each word to its picture. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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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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Bright Mice
Kindergarten through second graders explore the long i sound. In this phonics lesson, they read The Mother's Day Mice, sing "Farmer in the Dell," and play I Spy with long i in order to explore the target sound. Additionally, there is a...
Reading Resource
/a/ Word List
Help readers develop phonemic awareness, the conscious awareness of the sound structure of words, with an exercise that asks kids to identify and highlight the /a/ sound in a list of 39 words. They then read the words to an adult.
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I See A Bee
Learners create a drawing of a word containing the sound /ee/. They are introduced to the /ee/ vowel pattern that comprise the long /ee/ vowel sound. They practice listening for and reading a variety of words containing the long vowel...
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Find the Pictures That Begin With Long a
For this vowel worksheet students look at 12 pictures. Students are instructed to find the pictures that begin with the long a sound. It is not clear whether students are to color, circle or mark their answers.
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Short and Long Vowel Sounds
In this vowel sounds worksheet, students place an X through bubbles whose words contain short vowel sounds and circle those with long vowel sounds.
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Long Vowel O Sound
In this long vowel O worksheet, students practice saying the names of pictures with the long o sound, then color each picture. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Vowels Short And Long: Elevators
Second graders study short and long vowel sounds. They use a variety of drill and practice software to support basic skills acquisition and simple menus to locate information, with teacher assistance. They watch the movie and listen...
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Vowels Short And Long: Farmer Pete
Second graders study short and long vowel sounds. They hear each word or picture by clicking on it to hear each rhyme. There is also the option of letting some students type their own rhyming sentence in this program. They complete a...
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Vocabulary Building Grade 1
In this recognizing vocabulary words with long vowels activity, students review the words so, be, he, my, and why by spelling the words from dictation, unscrambling them, matching the correctly spelled words, and identifying the...
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Short Vowel Sounds
Some vowels make the same sound, like the vowels in grow and both. Read the words on the left hand side of the page (there are six) and match them to a similarly sounding word on the right hand side.
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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EEEEEK! Long Vowel E (e)
In this long vowel E instructional activity, students help a mouse find some hiding places for his food particles that won't be swept up by a broom. Student's then color in all the things they see in the kitchen that sound the same as...
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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.
National Institute for Literacy
Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling
Go over digraphs, vowel sounds, and affixes with a series of decoding and spelling lessons. Each lesson guides learners through a different reading and phonics skill, building on the lesson before, and challenging them with each step.
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'oo' Long u Decoder
In this long u learning exercise, students decode and read the "oo" (long u) words. Students are given twenty words to decode and read.
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Long u Word Search
In this word search worksheet, students find the hidden "oo" (long u) words. Students are given 20 "oo" words to find in the word search.
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