Learning Mats: Short Vowels
The Short Vowels Mats kit contains ten colorful two-sided game mats, 60 pigs labeled with short-vowel words, and wipe-off crayons. In addition, four blank pigs are provided for use as replacements, in case a labeled pig gets lost or damaged-simply use a permanent marker to write the missing word on the piece.
The kit is designed to meet the following key instructional goals:
• using letter-sound knowledge to identify words with short vowels
• distinguishing the short-vowel sound in words
• developing automaticity (fluency) in reading words with short vowels
• writing words with short vowels
• developing vocabulary
