2nd and 3rd Grade Vowels Worksheets

Distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds is one of the first steps in mastering vowels. Gauge student understanding of long and short vowels with this review activity.

Give your second grader practice reading and decoding "ew" words with this worksheet that asks her to choose the word that completes each sentence.

In this worksheet, children will complete each sentence using a word with a long A sound.

Children will enjoy sorting short vowel words with this cut-and-paste activity.

This worksheet helps students fine tune their understanding of letter-sound relationships and spelling patterns.

By now, your child knows that not all vowel sounds are the same. Challenge him to determine whether words contain a short or long vowel sound.

Children learn to identify, pronounce, and sort words with R-controlled vowels in this grammar and phonics worksheet.

The vowel team "ee" stars in this second grade review. Students will use context clues and a word bank to practice “ee” words.

Help your second grader master sounding out and reading "ow" words like cow and towel.

The sentences on this worksheet are missing a word, each containing the long "e" sound. Choose words from the box to complete each sentence!

Use this resource with your students to explore words with a variety of endings that make the long /e/ sound.

Focusing on the letter blends ar and or, this worksheet helps build your child's repertoire of letter and sound combinations.

In this worksheet, learners will work with syllables in words with the VCE pattern, or Vowel, Consonant, Silent E pattern.

Early readers determine if words are spelled with OU or OW in this appealing phonics and spelling worksheet.

Ready for some vowel team review? Students will distinguish between the long and short e sounds for the “ea” vowel team.

Kids sort long A vowel words in this worksheet.

In this worksheet, choose words from the box to complete each sentence. This worksheet helps kids recognize long-vowel patterns and spell them correctly.

Get to know some awesome vowel teams in simple words that you already know. You'll identify the team, fill-in-the-blanks, and complete a fun wordsearch!

As your students have learned, different spellings can sometimes make the same sound, such as the au/aw or ou/ow vowel teams. Assess your students' abilities to distinguish between differently spelled aw/ow sounds with this end-of-year phonics check-in.

Children work on phonics and spelling skills as they learn about the diphthong OW in this vocabulary-building worksheet.

On this second grade reading worksheet, kids sort words ending in "y" into two categories: the long "e" sound as in baby, or the long "i" sound as in spy.

Children will look at a list of 20 words and sort them according to whether they make a long or a short /oo/ sound.

Students use a dice to build words—and their vocabulary!—with this hands-on phonics worksheet!

Help your second grader improve her reading fluency by reviewing consonant blends, with help from this complete the sentence worksheet.

Assess student understanding of common spelling patterns for vowel sounds with this quick sorting exercise. Young readers will read words and then write them out in the appropriate column for long or short vowel sounds.

Children work on phonics and spelling skills as they learn about the diphthong OU in this vocabulary-building worksheet.

Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Try to see if your child can tell which word is which.

These sentences are each missing a word, and each missing word has the long "i" sound! Your child will choose words from the box to complete each sentence.

Improve your second grader's reading fluency by helping her practice reading and recognizing ea words.

Children work on phonics and spelling skills as they learn about the diphthong OI in this vocabulary-building worksheet.