The picture cards on this file are printable and are to be sorted into two groups: words that contain a long u vowel sound and those that don't.
Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
These cards are meant to be printed out and cut apart to use to practice reading and recognizing words with a long u vowel sound.
Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
Similar to the picture sorting cards above, this group of cards are made up of only words and they need to be sorted into groups of words that have a long u sound and words that don't.
Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
There are twenty-five word cards to cut out on the first page and they can be used to rearrange to form sentences. Try using at least one long u word in each sentence.
1st and 2nd Grades
Practice reading long u words, such as use, cube, music, mute, pure, fuel, and unicorn.
1st and 2nd Grades
Hide these fifteen scavenger hunt cards around the classroom and set your students to find them. They can write their answers on the answer key until they find all fifteen of the long u words.
1st and 2nd Grades
Flash Cards, Sliders, and Word Wheels
This file has twenty-four flashcards that can be printed out and cut out to use for practice. Print on card stock paper to get more use out of them.
1st and 2nd Grades
Cut out the truck-shaped word slider to practice reading words with a long u sound.
Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
Print out this word slider on card stock paper and cut out the picture and word strips along the dotted lines. Weave the word strip through the belly of the penguin and slide up and down to reveal long u words.
1st and 2nd Grades
Phonics word wheel: music, clue, use, blue, mule, tube, cube, menu.
Kindergarten to 2nd Grade
This page features words with a short-U vowel sound and has cut-and-glue activities, games, word wheels, and much more!
Long-U and Short-U (Mixed)This page has students differentiating between a long-U and short-U vowel sound and has a coloring activity, a scavenger hunt, a card sorting activity, and more.
Full List of Phonics TopicsSTW has thousands of phonics worksheets. Here is a complete list of topics, including consonant sounds, blends, long vowels, short vowels, r-controlled vowels, and diphthongs. We also have word family and sight word units.
