Low-Prep Short Vowel Games – Print & Play

Welcome back to our Print and Play Series, where we are creating and sharing low-prep games that you can play with your kids for summer review, school prep, or any time! The literacy games we’ve shared so far are for beginning sounds and ending sounds. Today, we’re sharing three different levels of short vowel games that you can just print and play!

Check out our Print & Play Short Vowel Games pack. It has SO many more games with updated directions and clip art!

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The kinds of activities found in this pack are similar to the activities you can find in Level 3 of our Alphabet Sounds App. If your child is ready for more short vowel fun, our Short Vowel Word Study App is a great place to start! Both apps can be found on Google Play and iTunes.

Three Levels of Short Vowel Games

We’re calling the games in this series “low-prep”, but we’re talking VERY low-prep…only 3-5 minutes to find the materials you need and you’re off to play {and learn}. This pack includes THREE levels of short vowel play! Here are a few pictures of each level:

LEVEL 1 is what my daughter {age 5} used. Only one particular vowel is featured on these game boards. Kids are asked to distinguish between short o and not short o, for example. {The empty circles are for the images that feature a different short vowel other than o.} We always go through and identify each picture before she begins the game. A picture key is included on the 2nd page of the download.

 

Here she is playing the short a game board. She landed on lip, which does not have the short a sound, so she’s moving the Power Magnet on the side for vowel sounds that are not short a.

 

LEVEL 2 is a little more difficult, as kids are asked to distinguish between and identify two vowel sounds, not just one. We did not play this one, but it’s played the same way as level 1 and can be for 1 or 2 players.

 

LEVEL 3 is even more difficult, as kids are not only asked to distinguish and identify two vowel sounds, but SPELL the words, too. This works great for kids who are ready for an extra challenge!

Just slip your page into a plastic sleeve protector and use a dry erase marker. A plastic sleeve protector works best if you’d like to re-use the page. If you don’t care to re-use the page, then just write directly on the paper.

 

If you play with two players, each player uses a different color dry erase marker on his side of the board. Since it is likely that kids will toss the counter onto the same word more than once, the rule is you can only spell the same word twice within one game. After that, you have to either re-toss it or you lose a turn. Of course, you are free to adapt that rule in your own way, too!

 

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Looking for even more NO PREP phonics games? You’ll find over 500 pages of updated games at your fingertips with our entire Print & Play Phonics Bundle Pack! Woohoo!

 

Download the FREE Short Vowel Games by clicking this button.

 

 

Enjoy!
~Becky