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Curated OER

Short /a/ Words

For Students K - 1st
In this short a words worksheet, students draw a line to match the short a words with their pictures. Students complete 5 matches. 
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Curated OER

Short /e/ Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this short e words worksheet, students fill in the first letter to the short e words and then write them 2 more times. Students complete this for 5 words.
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Curated OER

Home Spelling Practice Unit 1

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this reading and writing short vowel words in cursive worksheet, students read a list of words and write them on the lines provided. Students write 20 word answers.
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Curated OER

Spelling List 22: Sight Words, Short /u/ words, and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this spelling worksheet, students practice their spelling words that include sight words, short u words, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 21 words.
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Curated OER

Short /o/ Words

For Students K - 1st
In this short o words worksheet, students draw a line to match the short o words with their pictures. Students complete 5 matches. 
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Curated OER

Short /u/ Words

For Students K - 2nd
In this short u words activity, students add the first letter of the short u words given to them. Students complete this for 5 words total.
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Starfall

The Amazing Silent E—Changing Short /a/ Words

For Students K - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students learn the amazing power of the silent E to change short vowel /a/ words to long sounds. Students change two words and then write sentences for each.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Short Vowels With Clifford

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
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...
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Curated OER

English Skills Worksheet (6.203)

For Students 5th - 6th
In this multiple English activities worksheet, students complete a variety of assignments: write three onomatopoeia sentences, add ten endings to ten words, give the root words to eight words, play two rounds of word chess, find the...
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Curated OER

Spelling Success; Vowel Sounds

For Teachers 2nd Standards
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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Curated OER

Short E Words: Spelling Connection Grade 2

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling worksheet, students analyze the words in a maze of shapes. Students connect the short E words. Students then fill in the missing letters in ten short E words.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Picture the Word

For Teachers K - 1st
This is an excellent way to make onset and rime visual for beginning readers. They examine CVC-word picture cards that are all missing the first letter. Using plastic letters (or whatever you have), they complete each word and record it...
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Curated OER

Spelling: Short Vowel Review

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling activity students copy a set of 6 short vowel words. Parents are given suggestions to help students study and learn the words.
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Curated OER

Spelling: Short Vowel Sounds

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling learning exercise, students copy a set of 20 short vowel words. Parents are given suggestions for helping students study and learn the words.
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Curated OER

Short Vowel Oo

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this short o sound worksheet, students use the secret code box to help them spell some short Oo words. Students then draw a picture of the four words.
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Curated OER

Vocabulary Building Activity - Short a Words

For Students 1st
In this vocabulary building worksheet, 1st graders write a list of 5 short a words as the teacher dictates them. They unscramble the words and complete an "Eagle Eye" activity. They examine a vocabulary word and a list of words that...
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Curated OER

Vocabulary Building Activity - Short e Words

For Students 1st
In this vocabulary building instructional activity, 1st graders write a list of 5 short e words as the teacher dictates them. They unscramble the words and complete an "Eagle Eye" activity. They examine a vocabulary word and a list of...
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Curated OER

Vocabulary Building Activity - Short o Words

For Students 1st
In this vocabulary building learning exercise, 1st graders write a list of 5 short o words as the teacher dictates them. They unscramble the words and complete an "Eagle Eye" activity. They examine a vocabulary word and a list of words...
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Curated OER

Vocabulary Building - Short o Words

For Students 1st
In this vocabulary building worksheet, 1st graders write a list of 5 short o words as the teacher dictates them. They unscramble the words and complete an "Eagle Eye" activity. They examine a vocabulary word and a list of words that...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Name Those Vowels"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Help your class recognize the capital and lower-case forms of the five vowels. They will learn how to make capital and lower-case forms of the vowels and all the rules surrounding vowels. Fun songs and activities are included. Links to...
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Unit Plan
University of Texas

Alphabetic Understanding, Phonics, and Spelling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Have your youngsters reading in no time with with collection of literacy activities and lessons. Starting with a basic understanding of the alphabet, this unit progressively builds students' phonemic awareness and ability to decode and...
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Curated OER

Word Center

For Teachers K - 2nd
Construct spelling words through a Making Words activity. Learners create words at various levels using onsets, rimes, suffixes, long and short vowels, and word families. They write words as they create them and compare the words with...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Mixed CVC Words: Middle a, e, i, o, u

For Students K - 2nd
In this CVC words review worksheet, learners examine nine pictures and identify each of them. The words feature the short vowel sounds of a, e, i, o, and u. Children also complete five fill-in-the-blank questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Practicing Short and Long Vowel Sounds

For Teachers 2nd Standards
What are the differences between short and long vowel sounds? The class participates in a teacher ledlesson in which they add letters to words as they evolve from a three letter, short vowel word to a longer long vowel word. They...