Give your budding readers everything they’ll need to understand short vowel sounds and how to spot the differences between a short vowel sound and a long vowel sound.
Shortcut To Short Vowel Sounds

Eboni Hogan
Eboni has extensive experience in curriculum development, with a focus on culturally-responsive and arts-based approaches. Having spent years creating academic content and providing professional development to teachers, she now curates themed playlists meant to provide educators with valuable, time-saving resources.
Common Core Standards
K.RF.2.d Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.* (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
K.RF.3.b Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
1.RF.2.a Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
2.RF.3.a Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
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