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Use this assessment kit to assess students' awareness of vowels and their ability to identify long and short vowel sounds. Print the flashcards on cardstock for added durability.

This assessment kit includes:

vowel flashcards

picture flashcards (short and long vowel sounds)

instructional guide

student data collection form.

This assessment is a great way to form your guided reading groups.

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Student Assessment Kit - Long and Short Vowel Sound Teaching Resource | Teach Starter

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Use this assessment kit to assess students' awareness of vowels and their ability to identify long and short vowel sounds. Print the flashcards on cardstock for added durability. This assessment kit includes: vowel flashcards picture flashcards (short and long vowel sounds) instructional guide student data collection form.

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Students who need remediation, I would work in a small group. Begin with one vowel at a time and play word sort games with the students which is provided by the activity below.

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Depending on the number of students who understand short & long vowel sounds. I would have a center in which it would be consistent for the students to visit each day.

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Your students will love completing these CVC literacy centers! There are so many fun and diverse activities included which are all designed to help your students learn, practice and master their short vowel words. There are 12 activities included in total.
Save 25% with the bundle here: MEGA CVC Center Bundle The activities included are:
1. CVC I Spy - Students search the picture maze and locate the CVC words.

2. Read and Cover - Students match the pictures to the words on the mats.

3. Roll a Word - Students roll 3 dice and read the CVC words. Then, they sort the words by whether they are real or nonsense.

4. Onset and Rime Puzzle - Students match the onset and rime to complete the puzzles. Each short vowel sound is color-coded for added support.

5. Spell a Word - Students use magnetic letters or erasable marker to sound out and spell the CVC words.

6. Word Family Match - Students match the pictures to the word family strips.

7. Change a Letter - Using magnetic letters or marker, students read the CVC word and replace the underlined letter with another letter to form the new word.

8. Secret Words - Students write the beginning sound of each picture to find the secret CVC word.

9. Make and Write Mats - Students choose a card, say the picture name, make it using magnetic letters and write it in erasable marker.

10. Word Family Strips - Students write the beginning sound of each picture to complete the words.

11. Sentence Match - Students read the sentence (filled with CVC words and simple sight words) and find the matching picture.

12. Short Vowel Sort - Students sort the picture cards under the short vowel sounds.
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Your students will love completing these CVC literacy centers! There are so many fun and diverse activities included which are all designed to help your students learn, practice and master their short vowel words. There are 12 activities included in total.Save 25% with the bundle here:MEGA CVC Cente...

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Students with special needs will need direct instruction in small group or one on one instruction. Instead of teaching all the vowel sounds they will only be taught one sound at a time until they are ready to move to the next letter. They may also need a lot of revisiting the concept each day or week depending on how well they can retain the information. Visuals and allow the students to communicate with picture cards will help the students with each letter they are learning.

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The following are from the iReady curriculum. The activities are mostly done with distant learning but there is also instructional activities provided. Once both lessons are taught the students have individual accounts in which they follow the lesson.

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Reinforcing the concepts in other areas with help the students solidify their understanding of vowels sounds.

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Song can be played during the week during a transition.

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The Vowel Song: Long and Short Vowel Sounds | English Songs | Scratch Garden

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Students who are ELL need to grasp the concept of Alphabetic principals and need direct instruction of vowel sounds. Providing the students visuals and pronunciations with help the students understand the different vowel sounds. Putting ELL students in pairs with strong students in literacy with strength their support in understanding of vowel sounds.

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These short and long vowel sorting with an ice cream theme are a fun way to review vowel sounds!

We went with ice cream cones to fit a summer theme {free download at the end of this post} because you simply can't go wrong with ice cream cones! This short and long vowel sorting activity can be done several different ways and today, I'm going to show you a few.

*This post contains affiliate links.

Phonemic awareness, the awareness of sounds in words, is an important reading skill that we want to build into beginning kids. But phonemic awareness doesn't end with emergent readers. As readers grow, their awareness of sounds also continues to grow.

This progression can be seen in kids' invented spellings. Take for example this short and long vowel sorting activity. Using it, kids are required to listen for and isolate the middle vowel sound within words, then categorize the pictures by vowel sound. It's not as easy as it may sound for some kids {pun intended}!

Before trying this with your child, it is important to ask yourself if he is ready. This saves lots of frustration for your child and you. Typically, your child is ready to listen for short vowel sounds AFTER he or she can successfully listen for and identify beginning sounds and ending sounds; and it still may take time, practice and patience before it clicks completely.

Read more about the readiness signs in our Short Vowel Clip Cards.

Short and Long Vowel Sorting with Ice Cream Cones

On the download are cones and scoops for both short and long vowels. But there are several different ways kids can sort these. Note: I chose to cut out each individual ice cream scoop because I'm type A, but the download has a low-prep idea included!

I printed them onto cardstock, so they'd be more durable. I also prepped them by writing the vowel sound and word on the back of each scoop to make them self-checking. This way, if I ask NJoy {age 6.5} to do this activity again by himself, he'll have a way of knowing if he got them correct {an important way of helping kids work independently}.

1. Sorting Between Two or More Short Vowels Sounds

You can also use them just to sort between short vowels. Kids who are just starting to hear short vowel sounds will probably only need to sort between two short vowel sounds; and I highly recommend picking two sounds that aren't very similar in sound.

For example, the short a and short o would be a great combination, whereas short a and short e are made in a very similar place in the mouth and can be easily confused.

More advanced children can sort between 3, 4 or even all 5 short vowel sounds.

2. Sorting Between Two or More Long Vowel Sounds

Asking kids to sort between long vowel sounds is also a great way to build phonemic awareness by getting kids to listen for and zone in just on the vowel sound in the word.

Once again, you can sort by just two vowels or add more!

3. Sorting Between Short or Long Vowel Sounds

We used our cones to decipher between short vowel and long vowel sounds.

Because NJoy has just begun working on long vowel/silent e {as seen with our Spelling Mats and Spin & Spell Game}, I thought I'd give his ears a little "test" to see if he could decipher between the short sounds and long sounds of the same vowel.

After he sorted, we went back through each stack to make sure each scoop had the same vowel sound.

4. Throw in an "Oddball"

One fun thing to do is throw in a picture or two that doesn't go with any of your cones to see if your child can "find the oddball." Depending upon the temperament of your child, you may want to "warn" him before sorting that there's an "oddball" in the ice cream scoops. I like to make finding the oddballs kind of like a game or scavenger hunt, too.

For example, in the image above, I threw in a long i picture or two into the short vowel sort. The child could simply lay it to the side when he finds the "oddballs."

Our Alphabet Sounds App, Short Vowel Word Study App, and Long Vowel Word Study App all have a "Find the Oddball" activity that is a GREAT challenge for kids and is one of my favorite activities within each app.

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{Download this Short and Long Vowel Ice Sorting Activity HERE.}

~Becky

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Short and Long Vowel Sorting with Ice Cream

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Do your students confuse their short vowel sounds? Maybe they substitute e for a? Or i for e? Or just need more practice in general?!

The short vowel sounds can be so tricky, especially for students who have certain accents. In the southern United States, where I live, sometimes the e and i sound exactly the same!!

Accent or no accent, I find that my students need lots of practice differentiating between the short vowel sounds. They need practice when they're first learning the sounds, of course, but ALSO later on. Once they learn long vowel sounds, things can get confusing, and we need to come back and review the short vowel sounds too!

In this post, I'll share 5 short vowel activities that are fun, low prep, and only take a few minutes to implement. Plus I've got 4 freebies for you! 🙂 Make sure to read all the way through the post so you don't miss any of these freebies.

Activity #1: Short Vowel Craft Stick "Puppets"

In this activity, you say a word with a short vowel sound aloud. Students have to listen, repeat the word, identify the correct short vowel, and hold up the corresponding puppet.

In addition to holding up the puppet, students should identify the vowel. You can have them say the sound. Or, even better, have them say the letter name and sound: "A says /a/."

Here's an example:

You say the word "fish."

Students say: "Fish." Students hold up the "i" puppet. Students say: "I says /i/."

It takes a little time to make the puppets, but once they're done, you can use them over and over and over again!

You can download the templates HERE!

Activity #2: Sand Writing

Having kids trace a vowel in sand while saying the sound is an easy, engaging multisensory activity!

Just put sand on a paper plate, in an aluminum pie tin, or on a small tray. I like to use colored sand, like this (that's an Amazon affiliate link), but regular sand works just fine too.

There are a few different things you can do with sand:

Option 1: Say a short vowel sound (i.e. /u/). Students repeat the sound. Students then write the correct letter in sand. While they are writing the letter, they say the letter name and sound ("U" says /u/).

Option 2: Use the same procedures for activity #1, where you say a short vowel word and students identify and write the vowel sound they hear. You'll still want students to say the letter name and sound while they trace.

If you're out of sand or want to change things up...try the free Sand Draw app!

Although it's not quite the same as real sand, kids still get the sensory experience of tracing with their finger while saying the sound aloud.

Activity #3: Picture Sorts

This activity is simple but helpful for students who are having trouble differentiating between the vowel sounds.

Give students a set of picture cards for 2-3 sounds total (i.e., some pictures for a, i, and u). Have them name each picture out loud. Then, have them sort the pictures. When they're finished, they can "read down" the column of pictures, again naming each picture. Once a student finishes reading down the column, he/she identifies the vowel sound that those pictures all contain.

If you need pictures for sorting, you can grab some HERE!

Activity #4: Vowel Fluency Strips

Even when students know the short vowel sounds, they may not always read them correctly in words!

To help them apply that knowledge, they need lots of practice. In-context practice is important (reading real texts), but isolated practice can be helpful too.

These (free) fluency strips are a great way for students to practice paying close attention to the vowel sound in a word!

If it helps, students can highlight all the vowels before they read across the strip.

Or, you can laminate the strips and have them use dry erase markers. You can put the strips on a ring, too!

A few of the words in the freebie may be unknown to students, so make sure to talk about what they mean, as well.

Grab the vowel fluency strips HERE!

Activity #5: Short or Long?

As I mentioned at the beginning of the post, students tend to experience vowel confusion once they start learning long vowel sounds.

It's important to go back and review short vowel sounds (and contrast them to the long sounds). Word sorts and picture sorts are great for this. Another fun, simple activity is a game we play called "Short or Long?"

You say a word (or even just a vowel sound), and students have to call out the vowel sound and whether it is long or short (i.e., "Long A!").

If you have Slinkys or rubber bands, students can stretch or contract them as they call out the vowel sound (i.e. stretching the rubber band long for a long vowel sound).

If you're working in a larger group setting, you may want to have students write on a whiteboard rather than call out their answer.

Need More Phonics Activities?

I hope these ideas were helpful to you!! A couple more ideas (I know, I know, I only said 5 but I can't help myself!) Check out my no-prep phonics games for Kindergarten and 1st grade. There's a specific set for each of those grades geared towards CVC words.

Other products for CVC words would be the Kindergarten Decodable Readers for CVC words ( Set 1 and Set 2) and the 1st Grade Decodable Readers for CVC words. Options are endless!

I also have one more bonus freebie for you - customizable word work games to help your students practice short vowel words or any other words of your choice!

Phonological awareness

Phonics - including decoding and spelling

High frequency words

Handwriting

Complete lesson plans

Games and activities for students (i.e. for independent work or small group)

Decodable texts

Phonics posters

Leveled materials for differentiation

There are many more activities for short vowels and other skills in my phonics program, From Sounds to Spelling.

From Sounds to Spelling is a comprehensive program that addresses:

The program includes:

To learn more about this Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade phonics program, click on the image below:

Happy teaching!

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5 Fun Short Vowel Activities That Only Take 5 Minutes - Learning at the Primary Pond

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This post has 5 short vowel activities that are fun, low prep, and only take a few minutes to implement. And I've got FREE materials for you to download!

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Phonics and Word Recognition:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3.A
Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.

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Boom cards are a great way to allow nonverbal responses. They are also visual and audios for students to understand what is going on in multiple ways.

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Initial Short A sound
Students will identify the initial short A sound by clicking on a choice of two pictures. All images are paired with a sound file. Audio directions will automatically play with each slide. Included: 1 Deck 3 Cards Sarah B Elementary

Keywords: a sound, a, letter sounds, short a sound, initial short a sound

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BoomLearning.com - Amazing authors make awesome learning content! Students will identify the initial short A sound by clicking on a choice of two pictures. All images are paired with a sound file. Audio directions will automatically play with each slide. Included: 1 Deck 3 Cards Sarah B Elementary