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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

Kids sort long A vowel words in this worksheet.

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.

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!

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.

Children work on phonics and spelling skills as they learn about the diphthong OW 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.

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

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.

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.