Spill the Beans
Are you looking for an exciting, hands-on approach for your students to practice forming their short vowel words?  Try Spill the Beans.  Students use an alphabet bean game to create short vowel, CVC words.

Teaching Short Vowel Discrimination Using Dr. Seuss Rhymes
Through the contrast of short vowel patterns, this lesson supports students' use of analogy to apply their knowledge of vowel sounds in reading and spelling new words.

Listen!  Do You Hear It?
Lesson five of this unit, What's It Say?, students will create and state rhyming words.
 

Develop auditory discrimination:  similarities and differences of sound 

See 'N Spell: Blends.  Use virtual magnetic letters to build words.

Magnetic Chat:  On this website you can build words using a particular rime multiple times.

Spinning Short Vowel Word Game:  Students will recognize, create, and write short vowel words  by using three spinners.  This game would be good as a center activity.

Sheep in a Jeep Activities: While these were originally done in a second-semester kindergarten class, they would also be good early in first grade.

Suggestions for English Language Learners: 
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)  
 

E/B) Students count and report the number of sounds in words that are pronounced by the teacher.
(E/B, D) Students use flashcards to match upper- case letters to lower- case letters.
(E/B, D) Students identify and name upper- and lower- case letters from an alphabet chart.
(E/B, D, E) Using flashcard prompts, students reproduce phonemic sounds from the teacher's example.
(E/B, D) Students identify blending sounds by repeating what the teacher models.
(E/B, D, E) Students sound put words and then use magnetic letters to practice building words they sound out.
(E/B, D, E) Students use phonics storybooks, songs, poems, word-sound games, and rhythmic activities to identify sounds.
(D, E) Students identify and associate written symbols with words using checklists, matching, and student journals.
(D, E) Students manipulate sounds of the English language to form words that rhyme
(D, E) Students copy and say the letters written on the board and independently use manipulatives to create upper- and lower- case letters (examples: clay, pipe cleaners, yarn).
 

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