Reading Resource
Falling Leaves Long Vowel Game
Autumn's come early in your classroom! Match leaves with short words to the trees with the correct vowel sounds. A few blank leaves allow you to add your own words to the activity.
Lerner Publishing
Teaching Vowel Combinations
Need some fun activities to augment your lessons on vowel patterns and phonemic awareness? Peruse a series of worksheets designed to help little ones with their early reading skills.
Progressive Phonics
Short Vowel “A”
Support your phonics instruction with this beginner reading book that focuses on the short vowel /a/. The book is divided into four chapters based on the word families at, ad, an, and am. Letters and words used are c, a, t, s, m, n, d,...
Curated OER
Short Sound of A Word Shapes
In this word shapes worksheet, students write the 14 short a words from a word bank in the correct word shapes. They work with words such as grapple, cap, math, pattern, and granite.
Curated OER
Aches and Pains
Being able to distinguish between short and long vowel /a/ sounds is an important skill for young readers. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice reading...
Curated OER
A-Okay
Learners distinguish between short and long vowel /a/ sounds. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. Then they practice identifying words with the vowel-consonant-e...
Curated OER
Uh Oh!
Help your elementary learners distinguish between short and long vowel /o/ sounds. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. Then they practice reading and spelling words...
Curated OER
My Short U Book
Pictures help young learners remember new, unknown vocabulary. Show them this picture book and have them review the words that accompany each picture. Consider creating pictures for the five words on the last page.
Curated OER
Upper And Lower Case Ee- The Short E Sound
In this phonics and printing practice worksheet, learners analyze 3 pictures in each row. Students circle each picture that begins with short E sound, and make an X on each picture that does not. Learners make 1 example of upper and...
Progressive Phonics
Short Vowel “A” Activity Worksheets
24 activities make up this phonics activity book that focuses on the short vowel /a/. Early readers take part in tracing, filling in the blanks, coloring, finding differences in pictures, and completing mazes while using letters s, r,...
Curated OER
Words With Short A Sound
While just a series of slides with lists of words containing the short A sound, this resource would be a handy tool in a kindergarten or first grade classroom. You could use this resource as a quick review of this sound. This...
Curated OER
Short "a" Vowel Cards
In this recognizing short "a" vowel sounds worksheet, students cut out the penguin with short "a" word cards, practice reading the words, and match the short "a" rhyming words. Students complete fifteen word card activities.
Curated OER
Short vowel e
In this short vowel e worksheet, students read the words containing the short vowel e sound and write the words on the line. Students print 10 short vowel e words.
Curated OER
Short Vowel e
For this short vowel e worksheet, students color the pictures that's name has the short vowel e sound. Students have 9 pictures to choose from.
Jolly Learning Ltd
Cartoonito Activity Sheets
The snake goes sssss and the plane goes nnnnn! Practice letters and their sounds with a collection of activities. For each letter, kids get to color, practice the sound, and practice writing the letter. This is group one. See the...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Surprise!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Surprise! is the theme of a unit covering such topics as consonants, blending, short vowels sounds, high frequency words, and number words. The unit's lessons also include teachable moments covering story structure, illustrations,...
K12 Reader
Mom Will Find the Fox
Fox, box, shop, got... what do all of these words have in common? The short /o/ sound! Give your class some practice with the short /o/ poem by reading the poem on this worksheet. Learners also answer three included reading comprehension...
Curated OER
Short Vowels With Clifford
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...
Curated OER
Grade 1 Phonics- Short a
Work on the short /a/ in phonics lessons. Recognize and identify "Aa," name the letter "A," know the short /a/ sound, rhyme using short /a/ word families, decode basic short consonant-vowel-consonant words and transfer wisdom of the...
Curated OER
Phonics Instruction: Long Vowel Sound, Silent E
Learners explore language arts by participating in a class word identification game. In this phonics lesson plan, students read several words in class and identify the different sounds between short and long vowel words. Learners...
Curated OER
Short "E" Searching
Students engage in a instructional activity which uses resources from the PBS show, Between the Lions to help identify the sound "e" in words that are written, read and sung.
Curated OER
Short Vowel Sounds
In this short vowel activity, 1st graders will focus on reading CVC words. Students will study 6 pictures and choose the correct word from the word box to write on the dotted lines beneath each picture.
Starfall
Short A Label the Picture
In this labeling worksheet, learners will use six short /a/ words from a word bank to label the proper object on a picture of Appleland.
Curated OER
Short "i" Words
In this spelling activity, 1st graders write each of the short "i" words two times each and rewrite the words adding an "s" at the end of each word. There are five words to write.