Name tracing worksheet
Type a name to repeat it in pale letters between writing guides.
Short vowel worksheets
Twelve pictures a page, each a short word with a short vowel: write the missing vowel under each picture, circle the vowel sound you hear, or find the pictures with one vowel’s sound, a, e, i, o or u. The answer key follows. Each copy draws new pictures.
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Write the missing vowel · LetterWrite the missing vowel · A4Circle the vowel sound · LetterCircle the vowel sound · A4Short a: find the pictures · LetterShort a: find the pictures · A4Short e: find the pictures · LetterShort e: find the pictures · A4Short i: find the pictures · LetterShort i: find the pictures · A4Short o: find the pictures · LetterShort o: find the pictures · A4Short u: find the pictures · LetterShort u: find the pictures · A4
Which sheet to choose
Write the missing vowel shows each picture’s word with its vowel left out, as h_t for hat: the child says the word, listens for the vowel and writes it in the box. Circle the vowel sound prints the five vowels under each picture, so a child who is not yet writing can circle the one they hear. Short a, e, i, o or u puts six pictures with that vowel’s sound among six without, to find and circle. Short vowels usually come in kindergarten and grade 1.
Hearing a short vowel
Say the word slowly and stretch the vowel: h-a-a-t. A short vowel is the sound at the start of apple, elbow, insect, octopus and umbrella, not the letter’s name; when a vowel says its name, as the a in cake does, it is a long vowel. In egg the vowel comes first; in most of the words it sits between two consonants.
After the short vowels
Word families build on them, a short vowel and its ending at a time (-at, -en, -ig). The long vowel worksheets come next: a vowel that says its name, spelled with a silent e as in kite, or with two vowels as in boat.
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Cursive tracing worksheets
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Phonics word sort worksheets
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Word building worksheets
Eight pictures a page, each with its letters jumbled in tiles beside it and a box for each letter: say the name of the picture, then build the word from the tiles. Short vowel words such as sun, cup and fish, or on the harder sheet words with ee, oo, ea, ar and ir, such as tree, moon and bird. The key gives the words. Each sheet draws eight of sixteen words, so the words, their order and the tiles change each time.
Long vowel worksheets
Twelve pictures a page, each a word with a long vowel, one that says its name: write the missing letters from a word bank, circle long or short for each picture, or find the pictures with one long vowel among others. The answer key follows. Each copy draws new pictures.
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