This laundry-themed phonics center focuses on short & long vowels, making it an engaging & interactive phonics intervention. A variety of long vowels & short vowels are included (CVCe words, beginning & ending digraphs, consonant blends and diphthongs).

Students LOVE sorting the clothing items into baskets, while practicing vowel sounds at the same time! You can also hang a real clothesline and add clothespins for a fun literacy center. This interactive product contains 5 vowel word sort sheets

(15 cards in each, 34 pages total). 

5 Vowels Word Sorts (15 cards in each)

Long O / Short o

Long A / Short a

Long E / Short e

Long I / Short i

Long U/ Short u

> Laminate on card stock and cut apart. Make sure you have some clothespins. Tie a string horizontally between two objects. Students sort the laundry by hanging the clothes on the correct LONG or SHORT clothesline and recording their answers on the Laundry Recording Sheet.

CCSSRF.1.3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

CCSSRF.1.3a
Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.

CCSSRF.1.3b
Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

CCSSRF.1.3c
Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

CCSSRF.2.3
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

CCSSRF.2.3a
Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.

CCSSRF.2.3b
Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.

CCSSRF.2.3c
Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.

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