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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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Short Vowel Word Families

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.

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.

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.

Kindergarten Reading Essentials

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

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!

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.

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.

Short A Spelling Cat Food

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

-an Word Family

Help your beginning reader learn about word families with this worksheet that asks her to trace words in the word family -an.

Writing Word Families: -et Words

With handwriting, phonics, and even sentence building practice, this worksheet is packed with reading and writing help.

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.

Jumping Bean Phonics

This cute game that lets your child practice making words, while acting like a Mexican jumping bean! Great for emerging readers.

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.

Make a "Word Slider"

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Words That Rhyme with "Man"

Help your child with his reading skills by introducing him to the word family with this phonics worksheet, which teaches the word family "-an".

Word Family Story: -at

Introduce your 1st grader to word families in a fun way with this word family story. She'll be amazed how many words are in the "-at" family.

Meet the "-at" Sound: Word Families

Help your child improve his reading skills with this printable phonics worksheet, which teaches the word family "-at".

"An" Words: My Word Family Book

Does your child need practice with reading? This worksheet is all about "an" words.

100 Words: Word Building

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

My Word Family Book: "-At"

Challenge your child to create a word family book filled with words that are part of the "-at" family.

Play with Words: A Pretend Bakery Game

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Word Family Story: -an

Have fun with word families by using them in a story. This worksheet features four words that end with "-an."

Word Family Story: -ug

How many words end with "-ug"? This sheet is a great way to teach word families and help your child form the building blocks of writing and reading.

Writing Word Families: -ub Words

Brush up on word families with your first grader as he practices writing and building sentences with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

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