Kindergarten · Phonics
Short a or Short o?
Free printable Kindergarten phonics worksheet: Short a or Short o? It practices short vowels (Common Core RF.K.2d). For ages 5-6. Download the PDF, print it, or fill it in online.
Fill in or color online- Grade
- Kindergarten
- Subject
- Phonics
- Skill
- Short vowels
- Ages
- 5–6
- Standard
- RF.K.2d
- Format
- A4 PDF · print or fill in online
About this worksheet
“Short a or Short o?” is sheet 11 of 23 in our free Kindergarten Phonics Worksheets collection, written for children aged 5–6. It focuses on short vowels, one of four sheets in the set on that skill.
In the set it comes after “Blend the Sounds” and before “Rhyme Time”. Working through them in that order, one sheet a day, builds the skill a step at a time.
What this worksheet practices
RF.K.2d · Common Core English Language Arts · Kindergarten
Reading: Foundational Skills · Phonological awareness
Children work on hearing and playing with the sounds in spoken words — rhymes, syllables and individual sounds.
More short vowels worksheets
The other Kindergarten Phonics sheets on short vowels, in the order they are meant to be done.
How to use this worksheet
- 1
Stretch the word slowly — "c-a-a-a-t" — so the vowel is easy to hear.
- 2
Play "I spy" with rhymes after the rhyming sheet: "I spy something that rhymes with bed".
- 3
Read each traced sentence aloud together, pointing to each word.
