Are you teaching the short vowel sounds, and looking for some open-ended assessment and/or short vowel worksheets to consolidate the different short vowel spellings? These brainstorm templates can be used as a record of student learning or class brainstorms, or are a fantastic open-ended assessment tool to assess what students have learnt at the end of a target phoneme focus.
Choose from a wide variety of activity options!
For each long vowel sound there are a variety of pages that include:
- 2 x differentiated worksheets- students break up the short vowel words into individual sounds, then draw the word or put it into a sentence. At the bottom of the worksheet, they write how many ways they know to represent that phoneme.
- Brainstorm words with each of the main spellings for the short vowel sounds
- List words with each of the main spellings for the short vowel sounds (includes an 'other' column where students can demonstrate their knowledge of less common spellings.
- Fun brainstorm pages with pictures related to each of the short vowel sounds
Differentiate your assessment!
The graphic organisers allow you to differentiate your assessing:
- Students requiring support may only fill out some of the columns or provide a couple of examples for each word.
- More capable students can demonstrate the extent of their knowledge by writing as many words as they can think of (rather than capping them by only testing them on a limited number of words) and/or showing extension representations.
- To further extend the assessment, block out the graphemes and get the students to fill that part in themselves.
Short vowel sounds included:
- Short vowel a
- Short vowel o
- Short vowel u
- Short vowel i
- Short vowel e
- Short vowel oo
Please note: this resource has been created from an Australian accent. There may be some variation with some words. For those with a US accent, simply pick and choose the pages that work best for you and your accent!