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Short Vowel Activity Pack

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Most all the printables you can find here at This Reading Mama are free. I’m a little addicted to making them and have two pages for our free printables: Preschool Printables and Elementary Printables. And while it’s nice to have all those freebies, sometimes you may just looking for one thing. And today, if it’s fun short vowel activities, you’re in the right place! I’ve bundled up a bunch of my short vowel printables PLUS added more goodies for this Short Vowel Activity Pack…in one easy download!

Short Vowel Activity Pack - This Reading Mama

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Short Vowel Activity Pack

What will you find in this pack? Great question! Included in this pack are 14 different and FUN short vowel activities. Really, it’s more than 14 since several of them can be played multiple ways and multiple times. Here’s a peek at a few. If I’ve already shared them on the blog, I’ve included that link. And notice there’s quite a few BONUS GOODIES, only found in this bundle pack!

 

 

Short Vowel Playdough Mats

short vowel playdough mats for individual words from Short Vowel Activity Pack - This Reading Mama

{BONUS GOODIE!!} In the pack are single short vowel pages, like these AND individual words, like you see above.

 

Short Vowel Word & Picture Matching

short vowel word and picture matching from Short Vowel Activity Pack

{BONUS GOODIE!} Picture and word matching cards {8 word and picture cards for each short vowel}. You can find more short vowel word and picture matching in our BOB Books printables.

 

Short Vowel Clip Cards

short vowel clip cards - 2 sets

Find a set for clipping the picture that DOES have and same short vowel sound and a set for clipping the picture that DOES NOT share the same short vowel sound, like these.

 

Cut & Paste Short Vowel Sounds

cut and paste short vowel sounds

{BONUS GOODIE!!} These cut and paste short vowel sound mats are great for reinforcing the middle sounds. Included are TWO levels: Level 1- all 6 pictures have the featured short vowel sound and Level 2- 4 of the 6 pictures have the featured short vowel sound and students only glue the 4 that have it.

 

Short Vowel Sound Coloring Pages

correcting the short vowel sound coloring sheet together

If you have a child that likes to color, like I do, these coloring pages are the perfect way to get kids listening for vowel sounds and doing what they like to do! These can be found for free on the blog.

 

Short Vowel Bottle Cap Spelling Mats

CVC bottle cap spelling mats

Bottle cap mats are not new at This Reading Mama. We have them in the word family lessons of Reading the Alphabet as well as in our BOB Books printables.

Included in this Short Vowel Activity Pack is a spelling mat, just like you see above, except that instead of the circles for the bottle caps, there are writing lines for students to write the spellings of the short vowel words.

 

Magnetic Short Vowel Building Mats

Magnetic Short Vowel Building Mats

Our Magnetic Short Vowel Build-a-Word Mats are a freebie on the blog, but I’ve updated the clip art and few words for this 2-tiered spelling activity.

 

Spin & Spell

spin and spell - spin a short vowel

{BONUS GOODIE!!} Spin & Spell is new and a fun game! On the game board are columns for each short vowel plus an extra mixed column marked as “?”. The student spins the spinner to short a, e, i, o, u, or ?.

 

spelling short vowel words with spin and spell

Once the spinner stops, he finds that column on the game board, identifies the picture, then spells the word on the spelling grid.

 

1-2-3 Flip It! & 1-2-3 Spell It!

1-2-3 Spell It and Flip It for Short Vowels

Both of these short vowel games can be found in our 1-2-3 Flip It!/Spell It! Bundle Pack, which contains phonics features for short vowels, blends, digraphs, long vowels and more. 1-2-3 Flip It! is a slower paced, less competitive game; and great for beginners. 1-2-3 Spell It! is similar in style to Uno and is a good challenge. These have been a real hit at our house. I hope it will be at yours, too!

 

CVC BINGO & CVC Rhyming Blackout

CVC Rhyming Word Blackout from Short Vowel Activity Pack

Both of these games are BINGO style, yet are played a little differently. CVC BINGO can be found in our Phonics BINGO pack and CVC Rhyming Blackout can be found for free on the blog.

 

Short Vowel Mazes

Short Vowel Mazes from Short Vowel Activity Pack

{BONUS GOODIE!!} In this pack are 5 different short vowel mazes. Students read their way through the mazes from start to finish. The circles are large enough for bottle caps,

Short Vowel Maze with transparent counters

but you can also use Do-a-Dot paint, Power Magnets or transparent counters.

 

Short Vowel Sight Word Sorts

While I don’t have an image for this one, you can go to an older post of ours to see what these are similar to. The idea is that kids sort beginning sight words that have the short vowel sounds in them. The pack includes 5-6 words for each vowel plus some “oddball” words to add an extra challenge.

 

Our Short Vowel Activity Pack is ON SALE {$2 off} until Saturday, May 16th. So, get you a copy today! Click “Add to Cart” below and see our other products in the shop.

 

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Comments

  1. Denise Applefeld-Hendin says

    December 31, 2015 at 2:53 pm

    I paid my $5.00 for the short vowel pack, but received no link to download….help!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      January 2, 2016 at 3:53 pm

      Hi Denise. Could you email me at becky{at}thisreadingmama{dot}com and I’ll be happy help you. 🙂

      Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      February 14, 2016 at 5:46 pm

      Hi Denise. Just seeing this comment. Did I ever get back to you?

      Reply
  2. Louise says

    January 30, 2016 at 3:35 pm

    Perfect just what I needed for an ASD child I work with as he is confusing the short vowels in his writing especially i/e and o/u

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      February 2, 2016 at 2:13 pm

      Yay! Hope it helps.

      Reply
  3. Christine Graham says

    April 8, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    The download was for the Short Vowel Activity Pack

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      April 10, 2017 at 8:12 am

      I just re-sent the pack your way! 🙂

      Reply

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