ESL Phonics Lessons: Short and Long Vowels (mixed)

Welcome to our ESL Phonics lesson focused on Mixed Short and Long Vowels. This comprehensive lesson is designed to help students distinguish between short and long vowel sounds, improve their pronunciation, and enhance their reading fluency. By integrating both short and long vowels into engaging activities and exercises, students will develop a stronger foundation in phonics and become more confident in their language skills.

ESL Phonics: Lesson Objectives

Increase Phonemic Awareness: Strengthen students’ understanding of vowel sounds and their roles in words.

Differentiate Between Short and Long Vowel Sounds: Help students recognize and distinguish between short and long vowel sounds in various words.

Improve Pronunciation: Practice accurate pronunciation of both short and long vowel sounds.

Enhance Reading and Writing Skills: Develop reading and writing skills by using words and sentences containing short and long vowels.

Mastering the short and long vowel sounds is an essential step in learning English phonics for ESL students. Explore the resources ESL Phonics section at Stickyball.net to find worksheets, games, and more to support your phonics teaching journey.

The free ESL phonics lesson below introduces pairings of words with similar vowel sounds, followed by several sentences that use many of these words. This ESL phonics lesson is available for free download, and you can download many more lesson like this in our textbook Phonics Monster: Long Vowels.