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Grade Reading Clinic Activities

Long & Short Vowel Sorting Activities

Second Grade Graduate Reading & Literacy Clinic

Long & Short Vowel Sorting Activities

Second Grade Graduate Reading & Literacy Clinic

Vowel Activities: Long & Short O

1. Student begins at the starting line.

2. Teacher roles the dice.
a. If it lands on an even number, the student must move to a word
with a short vowel sound.
b. If it lands on an odd number, the student must move to a word with
a long vowel sound.
3. After moving to one word, the student must pick up his/her word card
and check the back of it to verify if it is indeed long or short.
a. If the dice land on an even number, the student must move to a
short vowel word card. However, if he/she moves to a word card
and the back of the card tells him/her it is actually a long vowel
word, he/she must start over.
4. The objective is for the student to get to the finish line.
Second Grade Graduate Reading & Literacy Clinic

Vowel Activities: Long & Short A Go Fish!

1. Play vowel go-fish
2. Shuffle your deck of Long and short vowel
word playing cards.
3. Deal 5 cards to the student and 5 cards to
yourself.
4. Ask the student if they have any words
with the ah sound (for words with the
long a sound) to form a match.
a. A match would be matching any two
words that both have the long a
vowel sound (e.g. happy and map
are matches because they both have
the short a vowel sound).
5. Do this until you run out of cards.
a. The person with the most matches
wins.

Second Grade Graduate Reading & Literacy Clinic

Vowel Activities: Long & Short E Golfing

1. The teacher will choose a vowel card from the pile and
the student will need to lightly hit the ball into the correct
hole.
2. Then the teacher will place the vowel card into the long
or short e cup depending on which hole the student hit
the ball into.
a. For example: if the teacher chooses a vowel card
that says the word bed, the student will need to hit
his/her ball into the short e vowel hole. If he/she hits
the ball into the short vowel hole, the teacher will
place the vowel card into the short e cup.
i.
The student will repeat this sequence until
he/she has gone through all the vowel cards.
3. After the student has gone through all the vowel cards,
the teacher and student will look through the short e cup
and the long e cup. The teacher now asks the student if
he/she notices any pattern about the words in the short e
cup and the words in the long e cup.
a. For example: if the short e cup has the words bed,
set, ted, get, street, and yet, talk about what all
these words have in common in terms of their e
sounds and their spelling patterns.
4. This will allow the student to compare the sounds and
spelling patterns of the words within that cup.
Second Grade Graduate Reading & Literacy Clinic

Vowel Activities: Long & Short I Memory

1. Play Memory
2. All cards will be lying face down (blank
side facing up) in rows.
3. The student will flip one card over and
then another card (any cards he/she
wants)
a. If both of the cards have words with
short i in them, then they are a
match.
b. Or, if both of the cards have words
with long i in them, then they are a
match.
c. They are not a match if one card
has a word with a long i in it and the
other card has a word with a short i
in it.
4. The person with the most matches at
the end of the game is the winner.
Second Grade Graduate Reading & Literacy Clinic

Post-Reading Activity:
Story Map
1. After having read a story the
student will fill out his/her own
story map.
2. Have the student recall each
story part and allow him/her
to write his/her responses
down on the story sheets
using the dry-erase marker.
a. He/she may refer back to
the story if necessary.
3. The student will continue this
until he/she has completed
all aspects of the story map.

Second Grade Graduate Reading & Literacy Clinic

During-Reading Activity: CAF Retelling Rope

1. As you are reading the good fit book

that Jane read, look for key details and
information to add to your story rope:
a. Setting, characters, events, plot,
conclusion/resolution.

2. Encourage the student to look for details that

may be added to your reading rope as
he/she is reading.
3. If certain aspects of the reading rope are left
blank by the end of the story, have the
student look back in the story to try and find
the information.

Second Grade Graduate Reading & Literacy Clinic

5 Finger Rule for Choosing A Good Fit Book

Second Grade Graduate Reading & Literacy Clinic