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Teaching Resource
Break the Code with Short Vowels
Last updated 2025/08/28
Description
In this activity, students practice recognizing, sounding out, blending and reading words with short vowels.
Curriculum Connection
This activity supports the teaching and learning of consonant and short vowel grapheme-phoneme correspondence.
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It is not allowing me to view the resource when I click on the button. Am I doing something wrong?
The “View Resource” button links to the Reading Universe website, and it appears that they had updated their website structure. The correct link is now back!
The “Mark and Read” strategy is a great scaffold for students who are still learning to blend sounds together to read words. I appreciate how explicit the move from “mark and read” to “think and say” is.
Easily printable activity with great potential for small group instruction as well.
The ‘Break the Code’ activity using short vowels is fantastic in supporting learning. It builds the student’s understanding of the connection between phonemes and graphemes. It helps young learners to develop their understanding of, ‘Think It, Hear It, Say It, Write It’, as they learn that if they can say a sound, they can also write the sound. This is an important step for children in their understanding of the connections between letters, sounds and words.
Thank you for sharing this great resource!