About This Lesson
Skill Explainers are free step-by-step guides for teaching the essential literacy skills. They include lesson plans, in-classroom resources, PBS-quality videos, and more. Conquering words with short vowel sounds is a major early milestone for students who
are learning to read.
To get there, students need to be quick and accurate with their short vowels — and that can be a challenge. In this skill explainer, we’ll walk you through how to reinforce the short vowel sounds for the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', and 'u'.
