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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Kids sort long A vowel words in this worksheet.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

Is your second grader learning vowels? This worksheet helps kids recognize long-vowel patterns and spell them correctly.

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.

Kids choose from the diphthongs oi, oy, ou, and ow to fill in the missing letters in the words on this second grade reading and writing worksheet.

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

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

Short Vowel Bingo, an educational twist on a favorite classroom game. This game helps kids differentiate short vowels from long vowels.