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Short Vowels: o, u, e
O:octopus
This octopus wants socks.
Directions: Short o is the sound you hear at the beginning of the word octopus. Say each picture name. Color the sock if you hear the short o sound. Does this octopus have enough colored socks?
goat, dog, ant, fireflies, ostrich, diamond, box, frog, cow, lock
What do you know about a real octopus? What would you like to know?
Review:
cot, pin, dog, hat, box, rod, pot, mop
Directions: Use a toy car or pretend your finger is a car at the top of each hill. Smoothly move your finger or car down the hill as you blend the letter sounds to say the name of the picture. Then trace its name on the line.
U:umbrella
Decorate the big beach umbrella.
Directions: Short u is the sound you hear at the beginning of the word umbrella. Cut the pictures at the bottm of the page. Say each picture name. If you hear the short u sound, paste the picture on the umbrella.
truck, drum, apple, score, mouth, squirrel, brush, sock
Directions: Use a toy car or your finger to smoothly blend the letter sounds to read each word. Then write it on the line.
pup, bug, mud
Directions: Write the word from above that names each picture.
What happened the last time you played in the mud?
E:hen
Help the red hen find her eggs.
Directions: Short e is the sound you hear in the middle of the word hen. Follow the path with the pictures whose names have the short e sound.
milk, desk, bat, pen, sun, fence, bed, log, tent, sled
What if the red hen lived in a rain forest instead of in a pen on a farm? How would her home be different?
Directions: Use a toy car or your finger to smoothly blend the letter sounds to read each word. Write the word on the line. Then write the word that names each picture at the bottom.
bed, net men
Review:
Directions: Say each picture name. Circle the letter that stands for the vowel sound you hear.
cup, clock, tent
jet, doll, top
sun, web, duck
men, rug, fox
Rhyming words:
Directions: Words that have the same ending sounds are called rhyming words. Say the names of the pictures. In each row, circle the picture that has the same ending sound as the first picture.
jet, net, hat, pig
mop, nut, bus, top
can, hen, fan, sock,
six, wig, log, mix
submarine, sun, tub, cut