Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Et
Interactive word game that matches pictures to short vowel ET words. Build short vowel words using picture cues. Word list: jet, pet, wet, net.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ug
Interactive word game. Match the initial sound to spell the short vowel picture word. Vocabulary words: mug, hug, rug, bug.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Match: Short Vowel
Interactive concentration game with three levels. Matching short vowel words and pictures. vocabulary words: red, fan, bus, sun, hat, bag, jump, lamp, bell, duck, tent, drum, skunk, bench, dress, pants, shells, clock.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ink
Interactive word game uses picture cues. Make a word by dragging the letter tiles to spell each short vowel word.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Letter Hunt Tally: A Letter Sound Accuracy Game
Students play detective and discover a given letter at the beginning of a word. They keep a "tally" sheet and compete with their classmates. This site includes links to Letter cards and a Letter Hunt Tally Sheet.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Short a Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short /a/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Short a Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate short /a/ in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: short a" lesson.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: En
Create words using short vowel E. Identify beginning sounds using pictures to build words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Short Vowel Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using the pencil tool, students see how many short vowel words they can make on each page starting with the short vowel- a.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Word Race Game: Letter Sound Fluency
An exciting classroom word game based on the game "Boggle." The classroom is divided into groups. The teacher says a letter, and each students writes down as many words as they can that begin with that letter. Then they compare with the...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: A E and E E Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate "a_e" and "e_e" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words,...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Read a Word: Long O With a Final E
Practice reading one-syllable long-vowel words with a final -e. The focus of this game is on the long "o" sound.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Ot
Create short O words. Drag the initial sound to spell the OT word and match the picture. Vocabulary words: cot, hot, dot, pot.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Word: Og
Given the letters "og" with a blank before them and a list of letters from which to choose, students make words to match given pictures. Vocabulary words: dog, log, fog, frog. Audio and graphs make this page kid-friendly. When finished,...
Other
First School Years: Literacy: Phonics: Vowels: Sort the Long and Short 'A' Words
This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'a' vowel sound.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Aw" Sound
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.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ay" Sound
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.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ea" Sound
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.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Ow" Sound 2
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.
Roy the Zebra
Roy the Zebra: Reading Games: Long Vowel Phonemes: Words With the "Oy" Sound
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.
Quia
Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean?
This site offers flash cards for practicing vowel sounds. On one side of the card is a word; on the other is the vowel sound, such as long e. Students try to determine the vowel sound when they read the word; then check to see if they...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Ned and Pete: Long E (With Silent E) and Short E Sounds
This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will identify and distinguish between words that contain short /e/ and long /e/. An answer key and lesson...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Super Why! Spectacular Sounds Bingo!
This interactive Super Why! game features a BINGO game. Students listen to Princess Pea read aloud the following: initial vowel sounds, initial consonant sounds, and/or words with emphasized initial vowel or consonant sounds. Then...
Other
Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.