FREE Short Vowel Playdough Mats {CVC Words}

Is your child working on beginning and ending sounds or short vowel sounds? Maybe you have a small group in your classroom that needs some extra work on short vowels? Then these FREE Short Vowel Playdough Mats with CVC words are the perfect match for you {download at the END of this post}!

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Short Vowel Playdough Mats

These short vowel playdough mats are perfect for MBug {almost 5}, as she needs a little practice on her ending sounds and hasn’t mastered reading CVC words just yet. These mats work well for kids who need to work on their short vowel sounds, but they work beautifully for kids who just need to work on beginning and ending sounds because they only require the child to listen for the beginning and ending sounds in each word.

Included on each short vowel mat are 10 CVC images. For example, short i features pig, mix, fin, win, dig, zip, lip, wig, bib, & rip. The idea is that kids look at the images and spell each short vowel CVC word with playdough in the middle of mat.

MBug is my early bird and was up super early one morning this week, so I printed them off, laminated them {you could also slip them into a plastic sleeve protector}, and away we went with playdough! Here are a few images of her in her PJ’s before she even ate breakfast.

spelling PEG on the short e playdough Mat

 

spelling CAB on the short a playdough mat

 

A little later, she decided to try the short u mat

 

Variations with Short Vowel Playdough Mats

 

These mats do not just have to be used with playdough. Feel free to use Wikki Stix, dry erase marker or even cut yarn pieces to form the letters!

 

 

If your child/students are doing this at a center or for indepdent work, it’s nice to have an accountability piece. Included in the pack are recording sheets where students can write the words they have made on their playdough mats {10 lined spaces for the 10 short vowel words.}

 

More Activities You May Enjoy:

• Alphabet Sounds App – FOUR levels of play including an entire level of play for short vowel sounds!
• Short Vowel Word Study App {$2.99 from iTunes or Google Play}
• Short Vowel Building Mats
• Short Vowel Clip Cards
• CVC Rhyming Word Blackout
• Short Vowel Coloring Pages 

 

 

 

>>Download these FREE Short Vowel Playdough Mats HERE.<<

 

 

 

 

~Becky