Reading Fluency Passages Short Vowel Words | Distance Learning and Seesaw

Fluency practice is an important way to help your emerging readers with their reading. Teaching your students to read with a focus on a specific phonics skill is a great way to increase their reading fluency. These passages focus on reading short vowel words and offers great intervention and support to help your little readers blossom!

⭐This resource is also included in my Reading Fluency Passages Bundle which includes reading passages for short vowel words, long vowel words, and blends & digraphs. Save 25% when you purchase the bundle.⭐

UPDATE:
These reading passages can now be used for Distance Learning in Seesaw or Google Classroom. Instructions from using these for Distance Learning are included in the download!

What’s included?
This resource includes a reading passage for each short vowel word family. Your students will practice reading each word in isolation first, then find the short vowel words and highlight them in the story. They will read each story 3 times for fluency, re-write one sentence, and draw a picture for comprehension.

This resource also includes 5 assessments (one for each short vowel) that can be used as a pre-test/post-test, or used at the end of your short vowel unit.

The following words families are included:
Short a

• at family
• an family
• am family
• ad family
• ag family
• ap family
• ack family
• amp family
• ank family
• ash family
• short a mixed & assessment

Short e

• ed family
• en family
• et family
• est familly
• ent family
• ell family
• end family
• ess family
• short e mixed & assessment

Short i

• ig family
• in family
• ip family
• it family
• id family
• ick family
• short i mixed & assessment

Short o

• og family
• op family
• ot family
• ox family
• ob family
• ock family
• short o mixed & assessment

Short u

• ug family
• un family
• ut family
• ub family
• um family
• ump family
• uck family
• unk family
• short u mixed & assessment

Please download the preview for a closer look at some of the reading passages included.