The other activity I love doing is rolling the dice and asking children what word they can think of with that sound.įor example, if a child rolled long E she could name, “eat” or “jeep” or “leap”… It’s a simple, fun way to practice those tricky sounds! I focused on a short vowel sort, a long vowel sort and then did a combined sort for revision.įor easy storage, I stapled a zip lock bag to the back of each mat to make it easy to find the right pictures when I needed them. Once I saw that students could easily sort the long and short vowel sounds, I did a combined vowel sort working on all five sounds at once. There’s one set for each: A, E, I, O and U. I had children pick up a card, say the word out loud and place it in the correct spot on the mat. You could also laminate it if you’ll be using the activities over and over again in a classroom.Īfter cutting out the parts, I grabbed the picture sorting mats to have my students focus on learning one vowel at a time.

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Long or short vowel sounds