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Short Vowel Worksheets
A set of 3 worksheets to practice short vowel sounds.
Use this resource when learning about short vowel sounds.
Students write in the missing short vowel sound for each image.
Use the drop-down menu to choose between the color or black and white version.
Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.C
Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.2.D
Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.1 (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B
Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.D
Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2.C
Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2.D
Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3.B
Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

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We have updated a few of the images on the resource, making it more clear for the students to identify.
Change by Natalie Oct 24th, 2020
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