All Long Vowels Please Stand Up!
First Grade Reading
by Theresa Talley July 28, 2015
Students will learn long vowel tricks to expose impostor vowels who “say” their name in this fun game that
teaches the long vowel rule.
Learning Objectives
Students will distinguish short from long vowel sounds in a game show format.
Materials and preparation
Long Vowel Picture Cards worksheet, one set
taped onto the board prior to the lesson
Practice Vowel Game Card Pairs, cut out, with
directions saved.
Vowel Game Card Pairs, cut out and laminated
or glued to index cards prior to lesson
Long Vowels quiz
Attachments
Long Vowel Picture Cards (PDF)
Practice Vowel Game Card Pairs (PDF)
Vowel Game Card Pairs (PDF)
Long Vowels (PDF)
Long Vowel Quiz (PDF)
Introduction (5 minutes)
Announce that today long vowels are here to appear in a game show called Will the Real Long Vowel
Please Stand Up? Explain that short vowels will try to fool us into believing they are the real long vowel
words.
Introduce the Long Vowel Picture Card words from the set displayed on the board.
Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling (10 minutes)
Explain the long vowel rule: all long vowels say their names. Write the word ate on the board and write a
macron to make it ā. Point out that the macron is like a hat that the vowel tips to introduce itself and say
its name: “Hi, I’m A.”
Erase the e on the word ate. Erase the macron mark and replace it with a breve mark, ă. Explain that we
use the breve to show short vowels.
Point out that sometimes it’s hard to figure out which vowel is short and which vowel is long. Sometimes
the silent e will help us, like in the word ate.
Point to each Long Vowel Picture Card and ask students to echo-read each card as you say it. These
pictures will help the students decide what game cards are long or short.
Read the key words, the Vowel Picture Card Words. Ask students to stand after each word is read.
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Guided Practice (20 minutes)
Introduce the Will the Real Long Vowel Please Stand Up? game by playing a practice round. Follow the
directions on the Practice Vowel Game Card Pairs worksheet.
Review the practice game. If errors were made, refer to the Long Vowel Picture Cards to sound out the
vowel in each mistaken word.
Play the game. Follow the directions on the Vowel Game Card Pairs worksheet.
If mistakes are made, refer to the Long Vowel Picture Cards to reteach sounds.
Independent working time (10 minutes)
Distribute the Long Vowels quiz and read the directions aloud.
Rotate around the room to monitor understanding as students complete the quiz.
Related books and/or media
GAME: Long and Short Vowel Sort
GAME: Long Vowel Bingo
Differentiation
Enrichment: Challenge students to create additional long vowel picture cards. Students can also write
rhyming long vowel sentences. For example: The crate was a great place for a pet.
Support: Distribute less challenging word cards to struggling readers. Make extra copies of the Long
Vowel Picture Cards and allow students to use it during the game. Reduce the number of Long Vowel quiz
items required from eight to four and select less challenging word choices for students who struggle.
Assessment (10 minutes)
Use quiz words to review and check for correct responses by having student volunteers read each word of
a chosen quiz item aloud. The other students stand when a long vowel is heard.
Collect quizzes for a percentage grade for your grade book.
Review and closing (5 minutes)
Read the Long Vowel Picture Cards as a class.
Ask students to share with a partner one new short vowel word learned today.
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a e
i
o
u Long Vowel
Picture
Cards:
acorn, ear, ice
cream, oval,
unicycle
Practice Vowel Game Card Pairs
Directions:
1. Cut out each row and keep pairs in order.
2. Model the “Will the Real Long Vowel please stand up” game:
a. Choose a volunteer to sit beside you in a chair in front of the room.
b. Hold up your card and say, “I’m plate, and I’m the long vowel.”
c. Direct the student volunteer to say to hold up his or her card and say, “No, I’m
pat, and I’m the long vowel.”
d. Direct the rest of the students to then call out: “Will the real long vowel please
stand up?”
e. Hold up your word card and stand up.
3. Choose volunteer pairs to come up to repeat the procedure with wait/what, and
cape/cap.
Long Short
(p)1 (p)1
(p)1 plate pat
(p)2 (p)2
(p)2 wait what
(p)3 (p)3
(p)3 cape cap
Vowel Game Card Pairs
Directions for the Will the Real Long Vowel Please Stand Up? game:
1. Call up two students at a time to sit in chairs at the front of the room.
2. Give each student one of the same numbered vowel game card pairs to read.
3. One student holds up the card and announces, “I’m (word) and I’m the long vowel.”
4. The other student holds up the card and announces, “No, I’m (word) and I’m the long vowel.”
5. The rest of the students call out: “Will the REAL long vowel please stand up?”
6. The student with the long vowel word card stands up.
Long Short
1 1
1. ape apple
2 2
2. whale wall
3 3
3. cape cap
4 4
4. hope hop
5 5
5. meat met
6 6
6. at e at
7 7
7. cut e cut
8 8
8. lion limp
9 9
9. t iger t ip
Vowel Game Card Pairs, page 2
Long Short
10 10
10. puma pump
11 11
11. f eed f ed
12 12
12. rain ran
13
13
13. snail snap
14 14
14. t une f un
15
15
15. bead bed
16 16
16. bit e bit
17 17
17. smile smell
Long Vowels
Read each word. Which word has the long vowel sound?
Color in the bubble next to the correct answer.
1. act ape bed dig
2. snail cop bug ask
3. bat cap whale pen
4. fig mice rim tin
5. mom nap tip puma
6. lion pot mop son
7. ton crane sit met
8. jet fed tiger fed
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Long Vowels
Read each word. Which word has the long vowel sound?
Color in the bubble next to the correct answer.
1. act ape bed dig
2. snail cop bug ask
3. bat cap whale pen
4. fig mice rim tin
5. mom nap tip puma
6. lion pot mop son
7. ton crane sit met
8. jet fed tiger fed
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2010-2011 by Education.com More worksheets at www.education.com/worksheets
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