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2nd Grade Common Core Vowels Educational Resources

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.

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Long and Short Vowel Review

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

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Practice Reading Vowel Diphthongs: ew

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

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Long A Sound

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

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Practice Reading Vowel Diphthongs: AW

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.

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Short and Long Vowel Review

Help your second grader master sounding out and reading &quot;ow&quot; words like cow and towel.

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Practice Reading Vowel Diphthongs: ow

Give students fun word study practice during the winter season using this short and long vowel sort!&nbsp;

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Winter Word Sort: Short and Long Vowels #1

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

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Long "e" Sound

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

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Long "o" Sound

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

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The "ee" Vowel Team

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

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Sound of OW and OU

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

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Bossy R Sort

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.

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Vowel Sounds: Y as Long "E" and Long "I"

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!

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Vowel Teams

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

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Phonics Fun: Ar and Or Words

Ready for some vowel team review? Students will distinguish between the long and short e sounds for the &ldquo;ea&rdquo; vowel team.

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Vowel Team Review: "ea"

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

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Practice Reading Vowel Digraphs: ea

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.

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Missing Bossy R Sounds

Use a dice to build words and grow your vocabulary with this open-ended phonics worksheet!

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Roll a Word: Long I CVCe

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

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Vowel Diphthongs: OW

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

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Roll a Word: Vowel Digraphs: Long E

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

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Roll a Word: Vowel Digraphs: Long O

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.

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Long "i" Sound

This worksheet helps kids practice their understanding of the bossy r.

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Bird, Star, and the Bossy R Story

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

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Long "u" 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.

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Aw/Ow Sound Check-in

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

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Vowel Diphthongs: OI

In this hands-on phonics worksheet, learners will assemble a poem from a selection of -er, -ir, and -ur words.

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The -er, -ir, -ur Family Poem

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

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R-Controlled Vowels

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.

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2nd Grade Common Core Vowels Educational Resources

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