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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Super Why! Spectacular Sounds Bingo!

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Most Common Sounds for Single Letters

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This page contains audios of sounds for single letters. The audios give the letter sound and then pronounce a word that uses that sound. It gives only the short vowel sounds. The sounds are pronounced in a North American accent.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Short Vowel Sounds

For Students K - 1st Standards
A five-part learning module with links to images and videos about short vowel sounds.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Building a Sentence Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity teaching the short vowel sounds and how they are used in a sentence. The students put together sentences that are cut apart and then identify the sounds of the targeted vowel.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Vowel Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Generate worksheets that help students practice distinguishing between the various sounds that the vowels a, e, i and u make. Other activities for practicing pronunciation include bingo, flashcards and...
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Starfall

Starfall: Y Can Be a Vowel

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Discover how and when the letter "y" can act as a vowel. This site features an audio and video component exploring this topic. Students and teachers will benefit from this entertaining resource.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Long and Short Vowel Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students examine word and letter patterns to determine long and short vowel sounds.
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Quia

Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean?

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Quia

Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Concentration

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a matching and memory game which requires students to not only match words with their vowel sounds, but also to remember their covered location on the grid of boxes.
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Other

Saint Ambrose Barlow: Background Color: Missing Sounds, Year 1 Term2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Given a picture and word with missing letters, students determine what vowel sound is missing and type the word spelled correctly into the box provided.
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Other

Sounds of English

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive site on English pronunciation for English language learners and their teachers. It offers explanations and activities for pronunciation of specific sounds, of letter combinations, of word stresses, and of phrasal words....
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Make, Take, & Teach: Long I Vowel Sound Word List [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Use this list to master the letter combinations which create the long i sound in English words.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Hunt Tally: A Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Word Race Game: Letter Sound Fluency

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
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...
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Other

First School Years: Literacy: Phonics: Vowels: Sort the Long and Short 'E' Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'e' vowel sound.
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Other

First School Years: Literacy: Phonics: Vowels: Sort the Long and Short 'A' Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'a' vowel sound.
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 1

For Students 2nd Standards
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this sorting game.
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 2

For Students 2nd Standards
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this online sorting game.
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 3

For Students 2nd Standards
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this online sorting game.
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Sort It Out Vowels: Mixed Vowels List 4

For Students 2nd Standards
Label one-syllable words as having short or long vowel sounds in this online sorting game.
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Starfall

Starfall: Gus the Duck

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn the short U vowel sound with this cleverly illustrated and animated read-along story about a duck named Gus. Students can click on the word and it will show them how to blend phonemes to pronounce the word.
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Starfall

Starfall: Learn to Read

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
There are 15 easy-to-read stories, each focusing on a particular vowel sounds; it also provides quizzes using the same long and short vowel sounds. In addition there are alphabet videos.
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Quia

Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Matching

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a matching game in which students match the word in yellow blocks with the vowel sounds in blue boxes by clicking on them consecutively.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Short Vowel Sounds

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps early readers look more in depth at the short vowel sounds and requires them to identify, create, and write words that contain short vowel sounds.

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