Vowels Teaching Resources
A collection of resources relating to vowels and teaching them in your primary classroom. Use the series of posters to display r controlled vowel sounds, long vowel sounds, short vowel sounds and other vowel sounds. Also included are worksheets, long and short vowel flashcards, as well as fun hands-on activities including vowels bingo, vowel digraph roll games and vowel and consonant digraph spin games. Provide each student with a vowel digraph bookmark so they can refer to it when working with phonics.
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Phoneme Spotter Story – 'er' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the ‘er’ sound.
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Phonics Sound Wall Display
Build a classroom sound wall to match your phonics programs and literacy progressions with a printable sound wall display.
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Phoneme Spotter Story - Long 'a' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the long 'a' sound.
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Long and Short Vowel Sort
A sorting by long vowel, short vowel printable.
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Phoneme Spotter Story – 'ow' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the ‘ow’ sound.
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Phoneme Spotter Story – 'oy' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the ‘oy’ sound.
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Phoneme Spotter Story – Long 'u' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the long 'u' sound.
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Phoneme Spotter Story – Long 'e' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the long 'e' sound.
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Phoneme Spotter Story – 'oo' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the ‘oo’ sound.
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Phoneme Spotter Story – 'or' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the ‘or’ sound.
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Phoneme Spotter Story – Long 'i' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the long 'i' sound.
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Long O Words - Word Search
Explore words containing some of the most common ‘long o’ graphemes with this set of differentiated word searches.
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Differentiating Long and Short Vowels Interactive PowerPoint
An interactive quiz to practise differentiating between long and short vowel sounds in words.
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Magic E Words - Match-Up Activity
Explore words containing long vowel sounds created by the magic e.
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Magic E Wand and Word Cards
Explore the power of the magic e in CVCe words with this crafty phonics activity.
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Phoneme Spotter Story – Long 'o' Sound
A decodable text featuring various graphemes that make the long 'o' sound.
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Identifying Short Vowel Sounds Interactive PowerPoint
An interactive quiz to practise identifying short vowel sounds in words.
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Pop Phonemes - Segmenting Long Vowel Words
Review phoneme segmentation by popping each phoneme using these task cards.
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Long A Graphemes - SCOOT! Task Cards
Explore words containing graphemes that make the ‘long a’ sound with this active classroom game that will get your students moving!
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Move It! – Long and Short Vowel 'a' PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practise reading and identifying long and short vowel 'a' words.
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Move It! - Long and Short Vowel 'i' PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practise reading and identifying long and short vowel ‘i’ words.
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Short and Long Vowels Activity Pack
Segment and sort these words into their short or long vowel sounds.
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Vowel Sorting Activity - Short and Long Vowels
Supplement your phonics lessons with an apple-themed vowel sound sorting activity.
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Short and Long Vowels Interactive Activity
Help develop students' phonemic awareness with this interactive activity on short and long vowel sounds.