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Missing Short Vowels
Younger learners can practice reading and spelling words with short vowel sounds using this resource. They fill in the blanks to form simple words like bag, bed, and fox. With only twelve questions, this resource could be used as a quick...
David Suits
“Wild Readers” Decoding Skills Lesson Plan
Set young readers on the path toward fluency with this phonemic awareness resource. Based on the award-winning children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, this lesson allows beginning readers to practice isolating...
Curated OER
Long I and Short I Phoneme
In this long and short I phonemes worksheet, students examine 2 groups of 26 and 23 words. Students sort each of the groups of words into long I and short I phoneme groups using the t-charts.
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Find the Pictures That Begin With Long a
In 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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Home Spelling Practice: Short I, Long I
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words that have short or long vowel I. Students write each word one time on the lines. There are optional at-home activities as well.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 6: Short U, Long U
In this spelling worksheet, learners learn to spell a list of 20 words that have the sound of short or long vowel U. Students write the words one time. There are additional suggestions on the page for at-home activities.
Curated OER
Long Vowel I Words
In this long vowel i worksheet, students say a list of 24 words aloud, circling those that have the long i sound. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Rock ’N Learn
What Do You See? Long Vowel E
In this long vowel E activity, learners examine a detailed picture of a farm scene and 10 words in a word bank. Students circle all the words that have long E sound, then find the pictures of these objects and color them.
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Word to Picture Matching- Long Vowel Sounds
In this word to picture matching instructional activity, student match 5 words to the pictures that represent them. They see that 4 of the 5 words have long vowel sounds in them and include, teeth, lake, nose, cake, and kitten.
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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.
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Vowels: The Long and Short of It
These nicely-illustrated slides should help young learners associate short vowel sounds with words that use them. For example, the short o slide has pictures of a frog, a rocket, and a comet. The short u slide has pictures of a bus, a...
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Lesson Plan: Long Vowel Phoneme "oa"
Students read The Toad and The Goat, discuss main idea and story sequence, and identify rhyming words with the "oa" sound.
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Words and pictures: Long "ai" Vowel Sounds
In this words and pictures: long "ai" vowel sounds worksheet, students look at four pictures, read the clues and write the "ai" word on the line.
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Long Vowels - ea
In this vowel sounds worksheet, students study the pictures and use the vowel sound 'ea' to complete the words for each picture. Students use the same vowel sound to complete the second set of words.
Curated OER
Little Rabbit's Tale: 19
This set of daily spelling activities is intended for use with the story, Little Rabbit's Tale. Learners use the high frequency and spelling words found in the story to complete 4 different activities. They write the long e...
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Scare the Crows
In this long vowel O activity, students determine which shapes on the page contain words with the long vowel O sound. Then, they cut them out and glue them together on another piece of paper to create a scarecrow.
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The Sneaky e
Young readers are exposed to the vowel-consonant-e rule in reading. They see how, by adding an e to the end of a word, a vowel sound changes from a short sound to a long sound. This clear presentation should be helpful to your young...
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Scanning Worksheet-Catullus 58
Your advanced Latin learners mark the metrical pattern in Catullus 58, a poem written by Catullus concerning his love and hatred of Lesbia. Spend time translating the poem so your learners have a complete understanding of the passage.
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Worksheet Set: Super Phonics Level 2
Supercharge beginning readers phonics skills with this extensive collection of worksheets. With exercises on long and short vowels, consonant blends, rhyming words, word endings, and much more, this resource is a primary grade teacher's...
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I Ate Grape Cake
Students distinguish between the sounds for short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with a particular emphasis on vowel-consonant-e pattern. They practice reading and...
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The Squeaky Door
Young readers distinguish between the sounds for short vowel e and long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds, with emphasis on /ea/. They practice reading and spelling a variety of words that...
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I See A Bee
Students 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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The Shopping List: Vocabulary Words
If used as a quick look at the long I sound, this resource would be a good addition. Although it only has a few examples, it could be a way to review this skill with younger students. There is also a list of sight words that students...
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Long and Short Vowel Sounds
In this vowel sounds learning exercise, students identify the long and short vowel sounds in the given words. Student color the long vowels green and the short vowels yellow.