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Long A and Short A Resources

Teaching your students the difference between long A and short A can be a bit tricky without visual aids and activities to drive the point home. Education.com has developed the following worksheets that highlight the differences between ways to pronounce the first letter in the alphabet. Mix things up a bit and let students teach each other with the activity ideas below.

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Long and Short Vowel Sort

Time to shop! Kids must sort short and long vowel words at the toy store.

Color by Short Vowel Sound

Help your first grader practice sounding out short vowels with a fun coloring activity.

Short A Photoshoot

Kids find everything with a short A sound without seeing the words spelled out.

Short Vowel Sounds

Review short vowels from a to u with this word match worksheet.

A-E-I-O-U! Vowels Game

What do the letters A, E, I, O, and U have in common? They're all featured in this engaging reading lesson. Give your young learners a chance to play a version of Red Light, Green Light that doubles as a vowel review.

Short A Cat Food

Roly loves his cat food, and your child needs to feed him by spelling short A words.

Short Vowel Sort

What short vowel do you hear? Kids must sort by sound in this phonics game.

Sort out the short vowel sounds with this comprehensive phonics packet! Beginning readers will review vowel families and practice differentiating between "short" vowels and "long" vowels.

Short A Cloud Catcher

Kids help Tutu make rainbows by identifying short A words in this reading game.

Short A or Short O?

Kids drop items into the correct backpack, according to their vowel sound.

Reading: Phonics to Vocabulary

This workbook focuses on the fundamentals of reading and spelling from vowel sounds to sight words.

Learning Long Vowels: A to U

Kids find the words that match the long vowel given in this phonics worksheet.

What's in the Picture?

Kids can practice with the short A sound in this reading comprehension game.

Play Letter-Sound Hopscotch!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for first grade reading.

L-o-o-o-o-ng Vowels

Go long for this collection of vowel sheets focused on long vowel sounds. Kids will work with some common long vowel words and then practice identifying long vowels versus short vowels.

Early Reading Building Block 4: Short Vowel Sounds

Ramp up your early reader's phonics skills with these picture matching printables all about short vowel sounds.

Short A Spelling Cat Food

Roly is hungry! Your kid feeds him by spelling short A words.

Phonics Practice Test: Vowel Sounds

Gear up for a phonics quiz with this nifty practice test covering short and long vowel sounds.

Guess The First Letter: A Reading Challenge

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Play Flip Over Vowels

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Long Vowels: Long A in Train

Introduce your first grader to ai words with this long vowels worksheet.

All Long Vowels Please Stand Up!

Students will learn long vowel tricks to expose impostor vowels who “say” their name in this fun game that teaches the long vowel rule.

Short O or Short A?

Kids sound out short vowels and drop objects into the correct backpacks.

Short A Dot-to-Dot

Kids connect the dots to complete the letter "a" ... and help Floyd and Roly rap!

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