Short Vowel Words Resources

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

Sound Sorting

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

Word Family Words

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

Blending 2

Kindergarten Reading Essentials

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

Get ready for reading with this essential collection of activities that build reading skills.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Workbook

Rhyme and Writing

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

Short A 2

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

Short I Cat Food

Short I Cat Food

Kids must feed Roly by to spell words in this short I reading game.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Game

All in a Word Family

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

Ready, Set, Read

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

Short A Spelling Cat Food

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

Reading Practice: Consonant Clusters

Short A Spelling Cat Food

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

1st grade

Reading & writing

Game

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

Rhyming Word Family Fun Houses

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

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

Short Vowel Words

Short Vowel Words

Slide into short vowel words! Focused on three-letter word families, or CVC words, this workbook will pop, tug and fan through word-building and phonics practice.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Workbook

Word Family Hopper: -at

Rhyming and Word Families

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

Welcome to Word Families: "An" Words

Rhyming and Word Families

It's rhyme time! Your child will love learning about words that sound alike with this workbook, full of puzzles, pictures and mini books that will help any budding reader get a head start on sounding out words.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Workbook

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 Building

Short Vowel Word Families

Word Building

This phonics and spelling series gives your child tools to build words and read them out loud. He'll use letter and digraph cards to practice constructing words, spelling, and completing word ladders.

Preschool

Reading & writing

Workbook

Word Families: Meet the "At" Family

Short Vowel Word Families

Use this lesson plan to introduce or review the concept of short vowel word families and rhyming words to your kindergarten ELs. Can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the All in a Word Family lesson plan.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

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

Word Family Mud Hop: -an, -and

Word Family Mud Hop: -an, -and

Get some practice with word families "-an" and "-and," by playing this quiz-style game with your child.

Kindergarten

Reading & writing

Game

Short Vowel Name Sort

Short Vowel Name Sort

Short vowels can be found just about anywhere. One great place to look is inside your own classroom. In this lesson, students will enjoy going through the class list to sort the names of their peers based on short vowel sounds.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Bugs On a Rug