Are You Lesson Planning for Long and Short Vowels?

Long and Short Vowels

Students are ready to study long and short vowels and the connection between them when they can read word families (like hat, sat, cat, fat, etc.) and when they are starting to include vowels in their spellings. During this stage, a student might consistently attempting to spell long vowels words, but confusing the spelling, for example, RANE for rain. This is a perfect time to add word work to their day comparing and contrasting long and short vowels.

One of my favorite series of vowel resources that I've created comes with a lot of hands on materials to make your centers, small group and seat work time easier for you and enjoyable for the students.

Today I'm going to share with you the Long e and Short e resource. Once your students are use to the games and printables in this resource, it is the same for a, i, o and u, just with the different appropriate words.

The resource comes with:

*Center Sign and/or Center Folder Cover
*Teacher’s directions
*Student’s directions
*Center Game Cards
*Interactive Notebook Activities
*Student worksheets, great for assessment
*Answer Keys / Student Self-Check Sheets

 

 

One set of cards with just the words for sorting.

 Printable worksheets.

One set of cards with the words and picture clues. 

 

Student directions included.

 

Vowel Sorting Short e & Long e Center Games and Interactive Notebook Activities

 

Help in a variety of student levels.

Sort by picture clue cards only.

One set of cards as pictures only for your different student levels.

 

Sorting by words only.

Interactive Notebook Activities

This example is sorting the cards that have the words AND the picture clues.

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Vowel Sorting Short e & Long e Center Games and Interactive Notebook Activities

Common Core Listing

 Three ways to play to differentiate for your students' needs.

I hope you have enjoyed this post and gained some ideas to help teach your emerging readers with some long and short vowel fun!

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Fern's Freebie Friday ~ FREE Large Kindergarten Number Flashcards 0 to 10

These FREE Large Kindergarten Number Flashcards, are PERFECT for your one on one number testing of students during your first few weeks of Kindergarten.

Large Kindergarten Number Flashcards 0 to 10 Freebie!

This is a set of large number flashcards with the numbers 0 - 10 designed with a cute Smart Cookie theme. They are perfect to print on cardstock, 4 to a page, laminate and then use again and again each year.

Print multiple times, for more than one of each letter. Use them with a parent volunteer or small group lesson to create matching, number recognition and number sequence games and activities for Preschool, VPK and Kindergarten children. 

Large enough to use for bulletin boards too!

When it comes to the ease of prepping this resource, all pieces are rectangular and easy for you or a parent volunteer to cut on a paper slicer. No need to cut around eight flower petals, however, the graphics are still adorable and eye catching to hold your students' interest!

Here are a few new items that you might also like while preparing for your back to school plans.

Number Clip Card Centers for Numbers, Number Words & Ten Frames September Bundle

This Back to School & September bundle has SIX different sets of Seasonal Numbers, Number Words & Ten Frames Matching Clip Card Centers, with each center having four different forms of differentiation. You will love how simple it is to prepare this easy to prep bundle for your literacy centers. Perfect for small groups, centers, tutoring, homework, and center seat work, so many ways to use these Clip Cards that the possibilities are endless. Your students will enjoy working on their number skills with these Seasonal Differentiated Clip Card Centers! Perfect for an assessment grade for each week or for a substitute teacher day!

Four Ways to Differentiate for your class. You can dedicate one of your math centers, math workstations, as a clip card center. You can differentiate it for your different students' math levels or use the four different levels in this 24 pack bundle for 24 different weeks of independent level work.

1. Numbers to Number Words, 1 to 10 and 11 to 20.

2. Number Words to Numbers, 1 to 10 and 11 to 20.

3. Ten Frame to Number Words, 1 to 10.

4. Ten Frame to Numbers, 1 to 10.

Click here to see this resource at TpT.

Alphabet Clip Card Center Uppercase & Lowercase Back to School September Bundle

This Back to School & September bundle has SIX different sets of Seasonal Alphabet Matching Clip Card Centers, with each center having four different forms of differentiation. You will love how simple it is to prepare this easy to prep bundle for your literacy centers. Perfect for small groups, centers, tutoring, homework, and center seat work, so many ways to use these Clip Cards that the possibilities are endless. Your students will enjoy working on their alphabet skills with these Seasonal Differentiated Clip Card Centers! Perfect for an assessment grade for each week or for a substitute teacher day! 

Four Ways to Differentiate Using Uppercase & Lowercase Letters for your class. You can dedicate one of your literacy centers, reading workstations, as an alphabet center. You can differentiate it for your different students' reading levels or use the four different levels in this 24 pack bundle for 24 different weeks of independent level work.

1. Uppercase Letters Matching Uppercase Letters

2. Lowercase Letters Matching Lowercase Letters

3. Matching Uppercase Letters to Their Lowercase Letters and

4. Matching Lowercase Letters to Their Correct Uppercase Letter.

Click here to see this resource at TpT.

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Perfect for Back to School Free Lunch Box Love Notes For Home OR School!

While you're planning and getting ready for back to school, here's one of my favorite freebies for you. Lunch Box Love Notes. 

FREE Lunch Box Love Notes!

For Teacher-Moms, as tired as we are once August and September hits, we don't want to short change our own children. I remember I really wanted my children to have a good day at school, listen to the teacher. learn a lot and make new friends. But mornings for Teacher-Moms are not like something out of the Full House TV show....many a morning at my house SOMEONE crying over SOMETHING because they weren't the center of attention at that given moment. SOMETIMES it was even me! {Just kidding, OK, no, maybe not....}

These love notes are a quick and easy way for you to show them some love when they are away from you in that big, ole' school cafetorium, as they call it in my district.  BUT no lie, a very easy prep, I would write five on Saturday afternoon or Sunday night and hide them in my bedroom. That way I was ready to slip one in their lunch box each morning and if they wanted to buy their lunch that day, I had it ready to slip into their backpack. My FREEBIE has enough for 24 notes, that way you can use a different one each school day for a month! 

These Love Notes are also perfect for teachers to use as an End Of The Day student note! ♥

My favorite author, Erma Bombeck once said something about school notes....If they are typed on nice paper and signed in pen, they have been forged by the child, a real Mom has to grab a red crayon and writes on a kitchen napkin. :)

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Some mornings, showing your love with a red crayon on a napkin is just terrific too! Enjoy!

While your getting ready for back to school, you might also like this freebie for your files. :)

Owl Themed Student Binder Covers to Help with Your Classroom Organization

 Student Binder Covers - School Owls Student Work Folder Cover

This resource comes with the 

following student binder covers:

 Language Arts Folder,   Take Home Folder,   Phonics Folder

Science Folder,   Social Studies Folder,   Writing Folder

Work Station Folder,   Center Folder,  Word Work Folder

 Spelling Folder,   Vocabulary Folder,    Reading Group Folder

 Math Folder,   Homework Folder,   Reading Folder

Use one character/color for your high reading group. 

Use a different character/color for your middle group, etc.

This reading group folders example is from this resource, Student Binder Covers - Beach Monkeys Student Work Folder Cover, click here to buy it.
You can do the same with Math Stations, Centers, etc. the mixing and matching is endless!

     

     * Helps the children learn organizational skills, no more papers shoved into their desks.

You can print them on colored paper with black ink only to save money and they turn out just as adorable!

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Can You Use a Color By Numbers for the Break Apart Addends as Tens and Ones Strategy?

2nd Grade Go Math 4.3 Break Apart Addends as Tens and Ones Color By Numbers

Your students will adore these Color By Numbers worksheets while learning and reviewing important skills at the same time! You will love the no prep, print and go ease of these printables. As always, answer keys are included. Color By Code Second Grade Go Math Lesson 4.3 Break Apart Addends as Tens and Ones.

Second Grade Go Math 4.3 Break Apart Addends as Tens and Ones Color By Numbers

FIVE printables that are made to be an additional resource for any math series. Use them for your math center, RTI pull out, seat work, small group lessons, or homework. FIVE answer keys are also included.

These high interest black and white printables are great for seat work, homework or small group work.


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Available as part of a Second Grade Go Math Bundle.

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