Long and Short Vowels Spelling Activities

Last week, I was talking with a parent who was having difficulty helping his child with spelling. The problem was the child needed extra practice with his weekly spelling words. Initially, spelling involves learning the alphabet and associating letters of the alphabet with sounds. Vowels have two sounds: long sounds and short sounds. Children have to learn the short and long sounds for vowels and be able to match these sounds to words that include those sounds. His child understood the concept, but needed a lot of practice for the matching to become second nature. Creating printed worksheets was extremely time-consuming and the resulting worksheets were not especially appealing to the child. Instead of the printed worksheets, the parent used FlinkMake to create an interactive worksheet on the computer. It took only minutes because all the graphics were built in.


The interactive worksheet was much more fun and engaging than the printed worksheets, with an appealing character prodding the child on. The child saw a number of objects and had to but them in the correct category: long or short vowel sounds. He could select a picture and hear the word spoken. The parent could make tens of problems in minutes, providing the child with all the problems he needed for that letter.

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