Short Vowels teaches 37 frequently used two, and three letter short vowel rimes, with over 100 fun activities: search and sort games, cut and sort pages, word sort folder games, word wall activities, and more.
Supports Common Core Standards for Reading, Foundational Skills, Phonological Awareness. More than 100 Multi-Sensory Activities: Empower your students to recognize the common chunks or "families" in words and use these to read and spell new and multi-syllable vocabulary. A complete 5-day lesson plan provides step-by-step instructions for using the six activities for each word family. Begin with two-letter word families combines with a single consonant, and progress to three-letter word families with single consonants, blends and digraphs.
Research shows that when we encounter an unfamiliar word, our brains look for words we know with similar patterns. That's why children learn to read words by learning word families and by practicing with onsets, rimes, and chunking words.