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Short Vowel Words Resources

As your child’s confidence with vowels grows, it won’t be long before they are putting together their own long and short vowel words. Knowing the difference between the two takes practice. Education.com has created numerous worksheets, as well as assembled activity and game ideas, that will help your child develop their ability to recognize different when to use short vowels.

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A-E-I-O-U! Vowels Game
Lesson plan
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.
1st grade
Reading & writing
Lesson plan
Halloween Rhymes
Worksheet
Halloween Rhymes
This festive jack-o'-lantern will surely get your child to practice rhyming! He'll find all the rhyming word pairs and re-write them on the lines below.
1st grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Sound Sorting
Workbook
Sound Sorting
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.
1st grade
Reading & writing
Workbook
Short I Cat Food
Game
Short I Cat Food
Kids must feed Roly by to spell words in this short I reading game.
1st grade
Reading & writing
Game
Word Family Words
Workbook
Word Family Words
Word families are useful building blocks to help young readers and writers form words. This workbook lets kids build words with puzzle pieces and dice for some spelling fun.
Kindergarten
Reading & writing
Workbook
Welcome to Word Families: "An" Words
Worksheet
Welcome to Word Families: "An" Words
It's all in the family! Beginning readers learn about "an" words with this fun tracing and matching activity.
Kindergarten
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Word Family Hopper: -at
Game
Word Family Hopper: -at
Play this game to work on the word family "-at," a great way to help kids build reading skills.
Kindergarten
Reading & writing
Game
My Word Family Book: "At" Words
Worksheet
My Word Family Book: "At" Words
Get to know the "at" word family with this assemble-yourself mini book.
Kindergarten
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Word Families: Meet the "At" Family
Worksheet
Word Families: Meet the "At" Family
Get to know the "at" family! Look at the pictures of words ending in "at," then fill in the missing letter to complete each word.
Kindergarten
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Blending 2
Guided Lesson
Blending 2
Teaching kids to blend, or combine, sounds in order to pronounce new words is an important element to first grade reading. Segmenting the sounds that make up a word, and then blending those sounds to pronounce them correctly, can be a tricky skill to master. This lesson helps take first graders through this process, with guided practice and helpful examples.
1st grade
Reading & writing
Guided Lesson
Kindergarten Reading Essentials
Workbook
Kindergarten Reading Essentials
Get ready for reading with this essential collection of activities that build reading skills.
Kindergarten
Reading & writing
Workbook
Rhyme and Writing
Lesson plan
Rhyme and Writing
Rhythm and writing make a perfect pair in poetry. Let your young writers practice this skill with the -at word family and CVC words.
1st grade
Reading & writing
Lesson plan
Word Families: Meet the "An" Family
Worksheet
Word Families: Meet the "An" Family
Get to know the "an" family! Look at the pictures of words ending in "an," then fill in the missing letter to complete each word.
Kindergarten
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Short A Spelling Cat Food
Game
Short A Spelling Cat Food
Roly is hungry! Your kid feeds him by spelling short A words.
1st grade
Reading & writing
Game
All in a Word Family
Lesson plan
All in a Word Family
Practice making new words with your students as they learn about words in the -and word family.
Kindergarten
Reading & writing
Lesson plan
Short A 2
Guided Lesson
Short A 2
Having a strong understanding of short A words like bag, hand and bat can help first graders with reading fluency. This guided lesson helps to support first graders as they expand their comprehension of short A words. With targeted exercises and familiar examples, the lesson will take kids through the short A words they will most commonly come acrsoos in first grade texts.
1st grade
Reading & writing
Guided Lesson
My Word Family Book: "An" Words
Worksheet
My Word Family Book: "An" Words
Get to know the "an" word family with this assemble-yourself mini book.
Kindergarten
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Word Family Story: -an
Worksheet
Word Family Story: -an
Have fun with word families by using them in a story. This worksheet features four words that end with "-an."
1st grade
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Ready, Set, Read
Workbook
Ready, Set, Read
Is your budding reader up for a challenge? Help your child get familiar with the important elements of a story as well as its structure while putting his critical thinking skills to the test.
1st grade
Reading & writing
Workbook
Short O 2
Guided Lesson
Short O 2
In first grade phonics, it's important to reinforce kids' understanding of short O words like dolphin, dog, sock and doll. By learning short vowels, kids can decode and decipher these sounds in words they don't already know. This guided lesson takes first graders through exercises and examples that will help them practice identifying short O sounds within a text.
1st grade
Reading & writing
Guided Lesson
Rhyming Word Family Fun Houses
Lesson plan
Rhyming Word Family Fun Houses
It's rhyme time! Students will color-code rhyming words and put each one in its “word family house” with this fun rhyming mini book and fill in the "stair steps" writing activity page.
Kindergarten
Reading & writing
Lesson plan
Reading Practice: Consonant Clusters
Workbook
Reading Practice: Consonant Clusters
This workbook will introduce your child to consonant clusters: two letters with separate sounds, but which need to be read together.
1st grade
Reading & writing
Workbook
Short I 2
Guided Lesson
Short I 2
Understanding how to pronounce the short I sound, such as in pill and film, is important for first graders encountering words they don't know. This guided lesson teaches kids all about the Short I sound, and provides lots of examples of short I words. Targeted practice like this helps to reinforce kids' understanding of short vowel sounds and boosts phonemic awareness, upon which lifelong reading skills are based.
1st grade
Reading & writing
Guided Lesson
Returning Rhyme II: Practicing "-At", "-An", "-Ap" and "-Ad" Words
Worksheet
Returning Rhyme II: Practicing "-At", "-An", "-Ap" and "-Ad" Words
Give your beginning readers practice in reading and writing easy words that end in "-an," "-at," "-ap" and "-ad" sounds with this fun worksheet!
Kindergarten
Reading & writing
Worksheet
Rhyming Fun
Worksheet
Rhyming Fun
Read a rhyming poem, then write your own!
Kindergarten
Reading & writing
Worksheet

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