- Short Vowels Skill Explainer
Decodable — The Red Hen
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Use this decodable text to give students practice in reading closed-syllable words with short 'e'. For example, the letter 'e' in hen represents the short 'e' sound because the vowel is closed in by the consonant 'n'.