- Short Vowels Skill Explainer
Decodable — A Rip in the Bag
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Use this decodable text to give students practice reading closed-syllable words with short 'i'. For example, the letter 'i' in rip represents the short 'i' sound because the vowel is closed in by the consonant 'p'.