- Short Vowels Skill Explainer
Decodable — A Box of Hats
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Use this decodable text to give students practice in reading closed-syllable words with short 'u'. For example, the letter 'u' in bus represents the short 'u' sound because the vowel is closed in by the consonant 's'.