Compare long vs. short vowel sounds with this educational and entertaining video. Warning: Contains Cute Frogs using vowels.

Vowel sounds are hard to practice, especially the A, E, and I. To make the phonics practice fun we created a fun vowel sounds practice game with cups!

Lindsay / Early Years Literacy Specialist on Instagram: "‼️FREEBIE ALERT ‼️ 🎵Teaching short and long vowels? This song is for you! 🎵 And yes, you MUST save this for later 👌 If you have been following me for a while you will notice that I absolutely LOVE ❤️ turning phonics rules into songs 🎶. Like this ☝️. Drop the word 🎵 SONG 🎵 below and I will send you it for FREE, plus some extra goodies 😉🤗 . . . . . Follow ➡️ @literacyandlindsay for more fun resources and lit tips…

Vowels are the mainstay of any language; they are the sounds you sing in words. To teach a child to read, you need to know how to teach vowels

What are the short vowels? Find out words with short vowels and 5 practical and fun ways to start teaching them today!

Free printable vowel worksheets and charts. Students learn beginning, middle and ending vowel sounds, vowel teams, controlled-r and more with our Free Reading Printables!

Teaching long vowel sounds to your students? Learn how and when to teach long vowels to your students and get great long vowel worksheets!

Lindsay / Early Years Literacy Specialist on Instagram: "🎵You N E E D to teach this vowel song 🎵 ✨This song is a MUST when teaching vowels. I say the letters “a, i, o, u, e” as it follows my Scope and Sequence. For example, you should never introduce “i” and “e” close together as they are too similar and can confuse our little learners 💜 And Y is a vowel 97 % of the time so we MUST teach this, no surprises here! I am always so impressed with my learners once they know this 🎵 song…

I cannot tell a lie - I love anchor charts. No, I REALLY love anchor charts. I am a visual person, and I think most kids like to see their learning on display as well. Anchor charts also help me look good, because they remind me of what's what! It was actually fun (really?) to study vowel pairs, vowel digraphs, and diphthongs. I'm not kidding! I combed through their book to make this chart in order to put all of the information onto one chart. We had this chart up for 2 weeks and referred to…