Short Vowels

A new series of workbooks designed to help children recognize and recite short vowel sounds with games, sound recognition, following directions, tracing and writing, and thinking skills.

"The alphabet has 26 letters. Five of them are vowels: a-e-i-o-u. They can make long and short sounds. The short vowels can be used to build many simple words. Readers learn what these short vowels can do."--

Spectrum(R) Short Vowels for kindergarten provides focused practice in short vowel sounds. Grade-specific activities will help your child to recognize, read, and write short vowel sounds, as well as to identify words with rhyming vowel sounds. --The Spectrum series offers early learning workbooks that help your child thrive in todayÕs standards-based classroom. Spectrum Short Vowels uses phonics to build reading readiness. This resource provides focused instruction and a systematic approach to skill development for concept mastery. --Spectrum is your childÕs path to academic success. This best-selling workbook series provides quality educational activities that meet your childÕs needs for learning achievement. These comprehensive workbooks address essential skills in reading, language arts, math, and science. Students in prekindergarten to grade 8 will find lessons and exercises that help them progress through increasingly difficult subject matter. Complete answer keys, content reviews, and assessments help students track their progress and locate areas for improvement. --No matter your childÕs academic need, Spectrum is with you every step of the way.

"The alphabet has 26 letters. Five of them are vowels: a-e-i-o-u. They can make long and short sounds. The short vowels can be used to build many simple words. Readers learn what these short vowels can do."--

Increase vocabulary, sight word recognition and comprehension for beginning readers. Our resource is an essential tool to aid students as they begin to read and understand more about the onset and rhyme connection found in word families. Add onsets like "p" and "st" to rimes like "an" and "op" to form words like "pan" and "stop". Find the best onset, like "c", to finish the rime, like "at", to match the word "cat" with its real-life picture. Match the best rime word, like "rid", to finish the sentence, like "Get rid of the trash". Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, reproducible writing tasks, rime & onset cards, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

This must-have resource provides 21 original poems that focus on short vowel sounds to support phonemic and phonological awareness in grades PreK–2. Each grade-level appropriate poem features a corresponding lesson that includes two cross-curricular connections and include phonemic matching, isolation, blending, substitution, and segmentation. Take-home activities encourage linguistic interaction with friends and family members, which is especially useful for English language learners. This book features digital resources that include activity pages, poems, family letters, and an audio recording of each poem. This resource is aligned to College and Career Readiness standards.

This packet provides an excellent source of phonics practice for primary students. Students will review long and short vowel sounds through a variety of activities, including writing the sounds, coloring by sound, matching sounds to images, and more. The pages can be used as drill reinforcement or as independent instructional material. An answer key is included so you can easily assess students’ understanding.

A series of reproducible lessons introducing basic phonetics skills involving short vowels.