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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Use this fun picture sort activity to help your students understand the difference between CVC words and CVC+silent E words.

Kids find the words that match the long vowel given in this phonics worksheet.

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.

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

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

Help your first grader get to know long u words by matching words and pictures with the long u sound.

Evaluate your skills in identifying vowel sounds with this helpful test sheet!

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

Time for some long vowel practice! Go over all the vowels from A to U, and decide which words have the matching vowel sound and circle them!

What does a unicorn and an eagle have in common? A long vowel! Help your students practice sorting the long vowel sounds using this picture sort activity page.

It’s nearly the end of kindergarten! Use this handy assessment to check your students’ understanding of the different sounds of each of the five long vowels.

Are your students comfortable navigating words that contain a silent E? Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a silent E by having them read these sight words aloud.

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 AW in this vocabulary-building worksheet.

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.