Activity Booklet – Short E Vowel Sound CVC Words – Phonemic Awareness & Phonics

Item description

14 Word Study activities for beginning spellers to develop phonemic awareness and phonics skills. Activities include hearing sounds in words, letter-sound correspondence, sounding out, matching words and pictures, onset and rhyme, reading and writing words and sentences with Short E CVC words plus recording and assessment checklists. Print as an A5 booklet or A4 worksheets.

Included in this Resource

14 activities and 2 checklists

Checklists

• Progress and Assessment Checklists

Beginning sounds

• Identify words starting with the Short E sound
• Odd one out

Middle sounds

• Identify words with a Short E sound in the middle
• Odd one out

Letter Recognition: Identify the ‘Short E’ sound letter in words

• Beginning sound
• Middle sound

Spelling: the Short E sound

• Sound out and say
• Match the words and picture

Onset and Rhyme

• Beginning Sounds Onset: change the first letter to make new Short E sound words
• Ending sounds Rhyme: Identify the words that rhyme

Reading

• Reading Short E sound words by sight, complete words, no pictures
• Reading simple sentences with Short E words

Writing

• Write the Short E sound word that matches the picture
• Write a simple sentence using Short E sound words from the activities

How to Use These Activities

• Morning work, a page every day will build skills and confidence
• As main spelling lesson activities or as a complementary activity
• For catching up students who are having difficulties 
• Sequential unit, beginning with recognising words that begin with the focus sound and leading to being able to independently read and write words with the focus sound.
• Individual activities as needed
• Encouraging students to celebrate progress with child friendly ‘I can’ statements on every page

Print Options

1. A4 Booklet: print A4 pages 4-19 and staple together as a pack
2. Individual A4 activities/worksheets: print as required
3. A5 Mini Booklet: print [ages 4-19 double sided and select booklet in the print options/layout page on your screen. The booklet will print as 4 double sided pages and be ready to fold into a 16 page A5 size booklet with front and back cover and 14 activities. Staple or bind with string or ribbon