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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Have your students mastered vowel digraph patterns? It's time to find out! Use this assessment to check your students’ abilities to read words with vowel digraphs.

Give students word-building practice using the long E vowel digraph with this hands-on worksheet!

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

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.

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

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

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

Get on board the long a train with this reading and writing worksheet focusing on long a words.

Students work on phonics and spelling skills as they learn about the digraph OO (as in moon) in this vocabulary-building worksheet.

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

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

Vowel pairs are easier to sound out than they look. Help your first grader tackle the vowel pairs oe and oa with this matching worksheet.

Sometimes "Y" acts like a vowel. When it's playing the role of a vowel, "Y" makes a long "I" sound or a long "E" sound.

Help your readers tackle the silent e rule with this phonics worksheet.

Students will sound out four words and choose which words have a long vowel.

Help your first grader get acquainted with long o words with this phonics worksheet. He'll learn letter patterns from the oe in doe to the oa in goat.

On this first grade phonics worksheet, kids practice identifying the long "A" vowel sound by circling pictures. Then they write their own long "A" word.

Children will circle the long U words in a word bank, then use them to correctly label six pictures.

Help your students master the ending Y sound with this fun practice worksheet. By sorting words into two columns, young readers learn that the final Y sound can make a long E sound, as in baby, or a long I sound, as in fly.

It's time to check in on those long and short vowel sound skills! Use this fun picture assessment to check your first graders’ abilities to distinguish long and short A sounds.