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. 1

    The five vowels are A, E, I, O, and U.

  2. 2

    If a word only has one vowel, it usually makes its short sound.

  3. 3

    The short sound of the vowel O is like the beginning sound in the word octopus.

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Practice

3 questions

1

Listen to the word: 'hat'. Which vowel sound do you hear?

2

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

Quick comprehension check

Listen to these words and write down the words that have a short vowel sound: sun, cake, fish, tree, cat.

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