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  • Short Vowels Skill Explainer

Teaching Strategy: Short Vowel Sounds with Motions

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Produced by Reading Universe, a partnership of WETA, Barksdale Reading Institute, and First Book
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Morgan Walton: These are the motions we use to help students remember the short vowel sounds ... /ă/, apple, /ĕ/, edge, /ĭ/, itch, /ŏ/, octopus, /ŭ?, up.

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