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.

Introduce your first grader to ai words with this long vowels worksheet.

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!

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

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.

Using pictures as clues, kids unscramble the jumbled words, gaining practice with long vowel sounds and silent "E" on this first grade phonics worksheet.

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

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

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

Kids sort long A vowel words in this 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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!