For quite a few months now, I’ve been doing early reading activities with my Five. He is getting much better at quickly sounding out CVC words thanks to our hands-on activities and games.
After all this practice, I knew that my Five was ready for some review/assessment with a worksheet pack.
The pack includes nine worksheets, not so that you need to do all of them but so that you can pick and choose the ones that work for your learners. We started with this matching page. After we did the activity I realized it would be better to have the words in the first column so that he had to read them before finding the pictures, instead of vice versa. (The two columns are switched in the download.)
I’ve found that beginning readers may be exhausted by a lot of writing activities, so I kept that to a minimum in the bundle. In the above example, my Five only had to name each picture and glue it under the proper word family name.
Here he read the simple sentences and matched the pictures.
Here he read each word and matched the pictures.
This activity has the same idea, but each word begins with a blend or digraph.
This was the last activity that we did today. He colored the letters of each word and wrote the words on the line.
Writing each word was pretty tiring for him (he hasn’t started kindergarten yet), so it was time to be done after this worksheet.
I had told him that after he did some worksheets, he could type on my computer. He was soon very busy typing the numbers 1-100, which is one of his favorite things to do. 🙂
We hope you can use some of the pages in this bundle!
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Priya
The picture sort in this resource was a surprisingly big hit with my first grade intervention groups today. I can find similar resources elsewhere, but something about yours really clicked with my kids. I would absolutely buy a set of word family picture sorts from you if you have them!
Heather Groth, Customer Support
We’re thrilled to hear they were such a hit with your groups, Priya! We have two Word Family Mats that you could use as picture sorts with your students. You can find them both in our shop here, https://www.themeasuredmom.com/shop/?_search=word%20family. We also have a picture sort by short vowel sound at this link, https://www.themeasuredmom.com/product/middle-sound-picture-sorts-google-slides-seesaw-activity/ (it’s a digital resource, but also includes a printable copy), and there is one more for each of the other short vowel worksheet packs (see the comment below this one for links to those). Let us know if you have any questions about them!
Amy Lai
Hi Anna,
Do you have these worksheets but for the other sounds? short e, i, o u etc
Heather Groth, Customer Support
Hello Amy! Yes, we do! You can find them here:
Short e – https://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-short-e-worksheets/
Short i – https://www.themeasuredmom.com/grab-our-free-short-i-worksheets/
Short o – https://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-short-o-worksheets/
Short u – https://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-short-u-worksheets/
Karen
I use your worksheets often! Thank you for such wonderful material! They are fun and my class enjoys them. 🙂
Fatmeh
Thank you for your wonderful worksheets
Mary Johnsen
thank you for the extra word family ideas!
Are you sharing the other vowels also in this format?
Kate Dowling
Hi Mary!
This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. Here’s the link to the short vowel activities on the Free Printables page: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/print-2/#short-a. You’ll find each vowel has a link to its worksheet pack. We hope you enjoy them!
Sooah
Wow! I find such a great resources and worksheets on your site! I’m so thankful for all your great works!! Such an inspiration! Thank you so much!
Anna G
Thank you for your kind words, Sooah! I’m so glad that you can find helpful resources on my site.
Liza
Thanks for sharing your bright ideas.
I love your work.
Anna G
You’re welcome, Liza!
Nikki
I love your worksheets!!! Definitely looking forward to the rest of the vowel worksheets!
Anna G
I’m a little backed up at the moment, Nikki, but I haven’t forgotten them! Probably later in the fall.
Jenn
Thanks for the freebees! Do you have more like this for the other vowels? Thank you!
Anna Geiger
Not yet, but hopefully in the next few months!
Kate
Anna, we do our absolute best at my private school Kindergarten to NOT use worksheets. We make games…all the time.
I adapt several of your worksheets into games. And we love your games. Anything hands-on and exploratory and participatory is great for this age group.
Of course, worksheets do come in handy when we begin to have the kids prepare for First Grade.
Anna Geiger
Worksheets definitely aren’t essential, and I’m glad to hear that you’re finding ways to teach without using them!