Long or Short Vowel u Unscramble and Match Worksheet
Children unscramble and spell nine words, then sort them by the u sound. Long u: music, cube, few, rescue, tube. Short u: bug, monkey, blood, double.
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Phonics Level 3 Long Vowels Activity Book for Kindergarten & 1st Grade
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Curriculum
- Phonics - Long Vowels > Long Vowel U
- Phonics - Letter Sounds > Short Vowel Sounds
How to use this worksheet
Look at the picture and the jumbled letters, write the word in the empty box, then draw a line from the word to Long Vowel or Short Vowel.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Eraser
Extension activities
- 1Jumble a long u word for a grown-up to solve
- 2Write one sentence with a long u and a short u word
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
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