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.

Sound it out! Writing long words can be tricky! This worksheet encourages students to stretch out animal words and represent all the sounds they hear with letters.

Encourage your child to take a nature walk, using the prompts on this worksheet to write and draw their observations of plants, animals, sounds, and more.

Long words can be intimidating to write. But they don’t have to be! In this worksheet, students practice stretching out all the sounds in words based on picture clues.

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.

Rounding in centimeters sounds tricky, but it's simple, really. This ruler worksheet is sure to help your child wrap her head around this math concept.

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 short vowels.

The "ap" word family includes great words, like map and zap! Help your child get to know these fun words and letter sounds better with a word slider.

Understanding letter-sound relationships is an important skill for young readers. Give your students the practice they need distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds in this long “i” search.

What words have long "A" sounds? This word search will help your child improve his reading skills as he grows familiar with the vowel sound of the long A.

It's time to check in on those long and short vowel sound skills! Use this fun picture assessment to check your first graders’ abilities to distinguish long and short E sounds.

It's time to check in on those long and short vowel sound skills! Use this fun picture assessment to check your first graders’ abilities to distinguish long and short I sounds.

It's time to check in on those long and short vowel sound skills! Use this fun picture assessment to check your first graders’ abilities to distinguish long and short O sounds.

It's time to check in on those long and short vowel sound skills! Use this fun picture assessment to check your first graders’ abilities to distinguish long and short U sounds.

It's time to check in on those long and short vowel sound skills! Use this fun picture assessment to check your first graders’ abilities to distinguish long and short A sounds.

Challenge your young students to read words with many different vowel patterns with this fun worksheet. Combining reading and coloring, this activity is a fun way to practice differentiating between long and short vowel sounds.

Help your students review short vowel sounds as they identify which sound is in each word.

Good readers decode words as they read, giving them an ability to read fluently. Use this resource with your students to practice decoding by focusing on the beginning and end sounds in a word.

Learn the spelling rules for inflectional endings with doubled consonants in this helpful worksheet!

Give your beginning readers practice in reading and writing easy words that end in "-an," "-at," "-ap" and "-ad" sounds with this fun worksheet!

Ooh, onomatopoeia! This is a word that mimics a sound: like the "slurp" of spaghetti, a dog's "woof", or comic book sounds like "crash", "bam" and "bang".

Silent "e" worksheets are important to phonics success. In this silent "e" worksheet, kids learn how to make silent "e" words out of long vowels sounds.

Can you hear that? It's the sound of silence. In this mindful listening activity, kids are encouraged to go outside and spend some one-on-one time with the silence that exists in between sounds.

These pets need your help finding their missing letters! This worksheet encourages students to slow down and listen to each sound they hear. By working as word detectives, students learn how to segment pet words into different sounds.

Get ready for the holidays with this fun spelling activity! Students learn to listen for all the sounds in holiday words in order to fill in the missing letters while learning how to spell the words of the season.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long A sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long E sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long I sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long O sound by having them read these sight words aloud.

Mastering vowel sounds is an important step on the path to reading! Use this one-on-one assessment to gauge your first graders' knowledge of words that have a long U sound by having them read these sight words aloud.