Long Vowels Phonics Center Activities and Games | Long Vowel Teams

Description

Looking for engaging and hands-on long vowel center activities and games to help teach phonics skills? This pack includes over 12 simple and fun phonics activities to practice blending, decoding, and spelling words with long vowels and vowel teams (ay, ai, ee, ea, ey, ie, igh, y, oa, ow, oe, ue, ui).

Practice long vowels with your students in a whole group or small group setting with these interactive phonics center games and activities. They are easy for Kindergarten or First Grade students to play together in a group or work independently to practice previously learned phonics skills.

Here's what you'll get:

• Long Vowels Center activities including:
  • Picture Sort
  • Short or Long Vowel Picture Sort
  • Word Sort
  • Matching Mats
  • Long Vowel Puzzles
  • Clip Card Wheels
  • Play Dough Mats
  • Dry Erase Writing Cards
  • Sensory Bin
  • Spin and Cover
  • Connect 4
  • Fluency Roll and Read

All of these long vowel center activities can be printed in color or black and white. Each activity or game has step-by-step printable directions with in-action pictures, as well as a picture answer key so you know what all the pictures are!

Using Hands-on Activities during Centers 

Each center activity was designed to add fine motor practice, hands-on learning, and visual discrimination to help your students practice various phonics and phonemic awareness skills.

A hands-on activity is any activity where children are using their hands to learn. “Hands-on activities let the students' minds grow and learn based on the experiences and the environment they are exposed to. ELLs learn while discussing, investigating, creating, and discovering with other students. As the students become familiar with the subject they are learning, they begin to make decisions, requiring less teacher support and allowing more interactive learning experiences to occur (Cooperstein & Kocevar-Weidinger, 2004).”

Hands-on activities are the number one activity that I always use in my ELA centers for this very reason. Plus, hands-on activities are proven to be highly engaging, strengthen fine motor skills, and hold students attention longer than other activities. Read more about using hands-on, tactile activities here: How to Use Hands-On Activities for ELA Centers.

Using Interactive Games during Centers

As teachers, we are always trying to find engaging phonics games to play during ELA centers. Games are a great way to encourage students to work as a team, taking turns, problem solving, and encouraging each other. By playing these games they won't even realize they are learning!

Your students will love practicing long vowels with these highly engaging and fun phonics centers. Check out how I use some of these centers here: Four Engaging Phonics Games to Play in Centers

Simple, yet engaging! The variety of these low-prep centers allow you to use these throughout the year to continually review those phonics skills. You can also use these centers as a whole group lesson activity, during small groups, as an early finisher task, or morning work.

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Purchase the First Grade Long Vowels Phonics Unit to get these 12 center activities, Long Vowels Worksheets pack, PLUS 5 weeks of Long Vowels lesson plans, anchor charts, assessments, and more! Also available for Kindergarten teachers!

These centers are part of the SFK First Grade Phonics Curriculum– a yearlong done-for-you phonics bundle that includes lesson plans, phonemic awareness warm-ups, centers, worksheets, assessments, teaching aids, anchor charts, and more! Learn more about the Phonics Curriculum here. 

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Love, love, love these centers for my First grade students!! They are so engaging and fun!!” -Laura A.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This is perfect for my small group students who need some pre-teaching and additional practice. Everything works smoothly and goes well with the pace of my classroom.” -Katie O.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I loved this resource and my students loved it too. So many great hands on activities for the students and it was really easy for me to make as well. Thank you!” -Veronica

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these activities!  Exactly what I needed!  Thank you so much!” -Amy L.

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