Distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds is one of the first steps in mastering vowels. Gauge student understanding of long and short vowels with this review activity.

Give your second grader practice reading and decoding "ew" words with this worksheet that asks her to choose the word that completes each sentence.

In this worksheet, children will complete each sentence using a word with a long A sound.

Introduce your first grader to ai words with this long vowels worksheet.

By now, your child knows that not all vowel sounds are the same. Challenge him to determine whether words contain a short or long vowel sound.

This worksheet helps students fine tune their understanding of letter-sound relationships and spelling patterns.

The sentences on this worksheet are missing a word, each containing the long "e" sound. Choose words from the box to complete each sentence!

Assess student understanding of common spelling patterns for vowel sounds with this quick sorting exercise. Young readers will read words and then write them out in the appropriate column for long or short vowel sounds.

Help your second grader master sounding out and reading "ow" words like cow and towel.

Boost reading skills with an activity in vowel sounds! Match each picture to the word with a similar vowel sound.

Kids sort long A vowel words in this worksheet.

Using pictures as clues, kids unscramble the jumbled words, gaining practice with long vowel sounds and silent "E" on this first grade phonics worksheet.

In this worksheet, choose words from the box to complete each sentence. This worksheet helps kids recognize long-vowel patterns and spell them correctly.

Ready for some vowel team review? Students will distinguish between the long and short e sounds for the “ea” vowel team.

Get to know some awesome vowel teams in simple words that you already know. You'll identify the team, fill-in-the-blanks, and complete a fun wordsearch!

On this second grade reading worksheet, kids sort words ending in "y" into two categories: the long "e" sound as in baby, or the long "i" sound as in spy.

Help your first grader practice writing and sounding out silent "e" words with this helpful worksheet.

First graders practice recognizing long e by coloring the pictures that have a long e sound.

Kids practice sounding out and writing long i words as they complete the sentences with a word from the word bank.

Help your first grader get to know words with the vowel pair ai, and sneak in some writing practice while you're at it.

As your students have learned, different spellings can sometimes make the same sound, such as the au/aw or ou/ow vowel teams. Assess your students' abilities to distinguish between differently spelled aw/ow sounds with this end-of-year phonics check-in.

Kids sound and spell out long vowel words with this silent E worksheet.

These sentences are each missing a word, and each missing word has the long "i" sound! Your child will choose words from the box to complete each sentence.

With this worksheet, your child will match picture names to creatures representing short "A" and long "A" vowel sounds, then glue the pictures to the page.

Time for some long vowel practice! Go over all the vowels from A to U, and decide which words have the matching vowel sound and circle them!

Kids find the words that match the long vowel given in this phonics worksheet.

Review the long o sound and practice reading long o words with your first grader with help from this phonics worksheet.

Children work on phonics and spelling skills as they learn about the diphthong AU in this vocabulary-building worksheet.