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.

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.

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

Kids sort long A vowel words in this worksheet.

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

Use this resource with your students to explore words with a variety of endings that make the long /e/ sound.

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.

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.

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

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

Children work on phonics and spelling skills as they learn about the diphthong OY in this vocabulary-building 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!

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 AW in this vocabulary-building worksheet.

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

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

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

Students build words and hone their vocabulary with this engaging phonics worksheet!

Give learners word-building practice using the long O vowel digraph with this fun hands-on worksheet!

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

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.

Give your second graders some practice with long vowel word families and spelling patterns with this colorful activity! Students will identify long O words based on picture clues, then determine the spelling pattern of each word.

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.