Short U Sound Worksheets, Flashcards, Posters, Reading Comprehension

This is another post dedicated to printable flashcards, worksheets, and posters designed to help young students master English pronunciation. I made the printables below to teach short U sound to children who learn English as a second or foreign language.

Short U Sound Flashcards

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Word Families Worksheets: Am Words (Free PDF)

I keep on publishing printable worksheets that I designed for introducing word families to elementary students and thus helping them learn and memorize their first English words. This time the worksheets feature the -am words family. You are welcome to download the free PDF file and check out other worksheets from this series currently available on my blog (-at word family worksheets).

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Short O Sound Worksheets, Flashcards, Posters, Reading Comprehension

I keep on publishing my printables that I use to teach English phonics to kids. Here are some worksheets, flashcards and other teaching materials that can be handy in introducing the short o sound to young students.

Short O Sound Flashcards

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Word Families Worksheets: At Words (Free PDF)

I’ve recently started to design printable word families worksheets for my English teaching practice. Looking at 154 word family flashcards I created last year, I understand that it’s going to be a really long work. It’s hard to even predict how much time it will take to design worksheets for all the word families featured in the flashcards. So I decided to publish the worksheets as soon as I design them and give them away to my fellow teachers for free. So you are welcome to download a free PDF file in this and all my future blog posts dedicated to this series of printable word families worksheets and activities. My first post features the at word family worksheets. They are good for learning simple short a words in elementary school and even kindergarten. I hope these child-appealing printables will prove to be useful for your English lessons.

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Short I Sound Worksheets, Flashcards, Posters, Reading Comprehension

Let me share another portion of printable resources that I designed to teach English sounds to kids. Following the series of phonics-related blog posts, it’s time to publish worksheets, flashcards, posters and reading comprehension passages I created to help young English learners recognize and correctly pronounce the short I sound in English words. So here are the printables I’d like to share with my fellow English teachers from all over the world.

Short I Sound Flashcards

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Short E Sound Worksheets, Flashcards, Posters, Reading Comprehension

I’d like to share some of my printable resources I use for my English classes when teaching basic sounds. This blog post is dedicated to printables that feature the short E sound. I hope my fellow EFL and ESL teachers will find my worksheets, flashcards, posters and charts useful for teaching English phonics.

Short E Sound Flashcards

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CVC Words Flashcards

CVC words are perfect for my elementary school students who started learning English just a few months ago. These short words are easy to memorize, so they are the instant passive vocabulary for non-native speaking kids I teach English to. That is why, when teaching basic English reading rules with CVC words, I do my best to help children memorize those words. I design my printable teaching materials accordingly: with a lot of pictures and word-to-picture matching tasks. I have recently designed a set of printable CVC words flashcards to make learning CVC words even more fun for my young students.

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The kit includes 116 flashcards, 5 charts and 15 matching worksheets

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There are 116 printable flashcards designed to visualize CVC words for elementary ESL and EFL students and thus stimulate their memory in order to expand their English vocabulary from the very outset. Each card has a picture and a word part. The word part can be cut out to be used for word-to-picture matching activities.

Printable CVC flashcards featuring short a sound words.

Vowel Teams - Printable Posters

The concept of two or more letters spelling a single sound (digraphs, trigraphs and quadgraphs) or two sounds coming together to create a new sound (diphthongs) can be confusing for young non-native English speakers. I teach English to kids whose native language does not have diphthongs, and digraphs are rare things for this language. Yet in English digraphs and diphthongs are very common, so kids must learn how to spell them correctly. When working with elementary school students, I call digraphs and diphthongs vowel teams and consonant teams. I help kids imagine letters being pals and working together to form sounds. Imagining letters as cartoon characters allowed me to create all sorts of activities and icebreakers in the classroom. I also design visuals to help students better memorize common letter teams and sounds they make. Printable posters featuring vowel teams and consonant teams are among my best visual teaching materials for digraphs and diphthongs.

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I’m a big fan of visuals for teaching English. I believe such materials are very much conducive to memory of preschool and elementary school children. Even when we get aquainted with English phonics and learn how to spell letters, I do my best to offer as many relevant visuals as possible for kids to memorize new vocabulary through associating words with pictures. Such association is natural for children. Reading lists of words to train spelling of various digraphs is not as good as reading lists of words with pictures around them to train spelling and memorize some useful vocabulary at the same time. That is why I love the concept of printable visually-enhanced posters featuring words and corresponding images for students to different spelling patterns involving vowel teams and consonant teams. I have designed 30 such posters so far.

Vowel teams posters printed on A3 paper sheets (297 x 420 mm, 11.7 x 16.5 inch).

Short A Sound Worksheets, Flashcards, Posters, Reading Comprehension

I have designed a lot of printable resources to teach English sounds to my young students. The growing number of phonics-related teaching materials makes it harder for visitors of this blog to find the entire range of printables they might want to use for their English classes too. So I decided to publish a series of posts dedicated to individual sounds that would combine relevant resources from different articles published on my blog earlier. I’d like to start with worksheets, flashcards, posters, reading comprehension passages designed to teach the short a sound to EFL and ESL students.

Short A Sound Flashcards

I use my phonics flashcards to introduce English sounds to my students.

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CVC Words Worksheets: Short O Sound

This is the fourth blog post sharing my collection of printable CVC worksheets that I designed to teach preschool and elementary school students to read basic English words. The matching worksheets feature pictures that not only help kids develop reading skills but also better memorize their first English vocabulary. This blog post offers CVC worksheets featuring the short O sound.

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Worksheets for short a, e, i, o, u sounds.

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CVC Words Worksheets: Short I Sound

Here is another part of my collection of printable CVC words worksheets. These word-to-picture matching worksheets feature CVC words containing the short i sound.

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The kit includes 116 flashcards, 5 charts and 15 matching worksheets

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Worksheets for short a, e, i, o, u sounds.

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CVC Words Worksheets: Short E Sound

I continue publishing my CVC words worksheets. This blog post shares the word-to-picture matching worksheets that I have designed to teach my preschool and elementary school students to read simple consonant-vowel-consonant words featuring the short e sound as well as to help kids memorize the first English words to build their vocabulary.

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Worksheets for short a, e, i, o, u sounds.

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Phonics Cards (Short U Sound)

This is the last post with my short sound phonics cards. This time it's the short [ʌ] sound. The set consists of 16 phonics cards for reading and practicing this sound.

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Сards №№ 57-67 include such phonograms as -un, -ut, -ug, -um, -ub, ud, -up, -uck, -unk, -ump, -ust. Card № 68 presents some cases where the letter Uu is read as [ʌ] in the middle of the word, while card № 69 contains words with the same sound occurring in the beginning of the words. Card № 70 has words where the letter Oo is read as [ʌ], and cards №№ 71-72 introduce reading rules for vowel digraphs oo and ou.

Phonics flashcard: short [ʌ] sound

Phonics Cards (Short O Sound)

Today I would like to share my new set of phonics flashcards and this time with the short sound [ɔ]. This set consists of 12 cards covering the following cases:

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Cards №№ 45-52 include the following phonograms: -og, -ot, -op, -ob, -od, -ong, -ock, qua-. Card № 53 contains words where the short sound [ɔ] occurs in the middle of a word. Card № 54 presents words with this sound in the beginning. There are cases of the “wa” letter combination on card № 55. And card № 56 demonstrates the short [ɔ] sound in the vowel digraph au.

Phonics flashcard: short [ɔ] sound

Phonics Cards (Short I Sound)

I continue sharing sets of phonics flashcards. This time the set is dedicated to the short sound [ɪ].

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The set includes 20 cards with different cases where this sound occurs. Сards №№ 25-36 contain such phonograms as -in, -ip, -it, -ig, -id, -im, -ill, -ick, -ink, -ing, -ish, -age. Cards №№ 37-44 contain words where different vowels represent the short [ɪ] sound. These are the cases where the letter Yy is read as [ɪ] at the end and in the middle of a word; the letter Ee and the vowel digraph ey, the letter Ii in the beginning and in the middle of a word, and the letter Uu and the vowel digraph ui.

Phonics flashcard: short i [ɪ] sound

Phonics Cards (Short E Sound)

Two days ago I started publishing my new series of phonics flashcards with the first set dedicated to the short A sound. And here is another set of flashcards. This time they are designed to help young students remember the  short E sound [e]. This sound can be a little bit tricky for English learners because the name of the letter doesn't correspond to the sound it represents. In addition non-native English speakers can confuse letter Ee with letter Ii because in some languages such as Russian and Ukrainian, for example, there is no difference between long and short vowels and it's difficult for children to remember that the letter Ee is read as [e] and not as [i:] while the letter Ii is read as [ɪ].

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This set of flashcards allows practicing in reading the short E sound. Cards №№ 13-20 contain the following phonograms: -ed, -en, -ent, -ell, -est, -et, -eg, -end. Cards №№ 21-23 present different cases of short E sound. And card № 24 contains words with the vowel digraph ea which is read as a short E sound [e].

Phonics flashcard: short e [e] sound

Phonics Cards (Short A Sound)

Today I would like to present you my new series of flashcards devoted to teaching phonics and reading. Being an English teacher in a kindergarten I faced some difficulties in introducing English language reading rules to the children. In Russian, French, German, Italian, Spanish and many other languages reading rules are less complicated than in English. English can be really confusing for non-native speakers.

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Everybody knows that there are too many exceptions in English language that makes reading and spelling a stumbling block for little and even adult learners. That’s why I decided to develop a series of very simple cards where words are sorted by phonograms. All the words are easy to read and remember as I have selected only the most frequently used words trying not to overload children with unnecessary information. I hope my cards will facilitate the work of many ESL teachers from all over the world.

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The first set of phonics flashcards is dedicated to the short A [æ]. There are 12 cards in the set which include all the common phonograms with this sound: -at, -am, -an, -ap, -ag, -ab, -ad, -and, -ash, -ack, -ank. Card № 12 presents different words with this sound.

Phonics flashcard: short a [æ] sound