2nd and 3rd Grade Vowels Worksheets

Children will enjoy sorting short vowel words with this cut-and-paste activity.

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.

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.

Children learn to identify, pronounce, and sort words with R-controlled vowels in this grammar and phonics worksheet.

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

The vowel team "ee" stars in this second grade review. Students will use context clues and a word bank to practice “ee” words.

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

Focusing on the letter blends ar and or, this worksheet helps build your child's repertoire of letter and sound combinations.

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

In this worksheet, learners will work with syllables in words with the VCE pattern, or Vowel, Consonant, Silent E pattern.

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

Children will look at a list of 20 words and sort them according to whether they make a long or a short /oo/ sound.

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.

Early readers determine if words are spelled with OU or OW in this appealing phonics and spelling worksheet.

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!

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

Kids sort long A vowel words in this worksheet.

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.

Students use a dice to build words—and their vocabulary!—with this hands-on phonics worksheet!

Improve your second grader's reading fluency by helping her practice reading and recognizing ea words.

That letter R can sure be bossy! Give your kids some extra practice with r-controlled vowels by having them identify the correct spelling-sound correspondences of these common words.

Help your second grader improve her reading fluency by reviewing consonant blends, with help from this complete the sentence worksheet.

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

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.

Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Try to see if your child can tell which word is which.

R-controlled vowels can be tricky, but they provide a great way to help kids expand their phonics skills!

Learners will get to know "Bossy R" as they categorize 12 words according to their bossy R sound.

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