Discovering Short Vowel Sounds
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Objective
I can identify words with short vowel sounds.
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Warm-up video
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Key concepts
3 concepts
- 1
The five vowels are A, E, I, O, and U.
- 2
If a word only has one vowel, it usually makes its short sound.
- 3
The short sound of the vowel O is like the beginning sound in the word octopus.
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Practice
3 questions
Listen to the word: 'hat'. Which vowel sound do you hear?
Draw a picture of an object that has a short O sound in its name. Write the name of the object below the picture.
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Exit ticket
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“Listen to these words and write down the words that have a short vowel sound: sun, cake, fish, tree, cat.”
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