Ask students to sort long and short vowel sounds. Say a word (and hold up a picture card) and ask students to determine if it is a long or short vowel word. Have a t-chart where students can put all the short vowel pictures on one side and all the long vowel pictures on another.
Example words:
Short vowels—cat, tap, flat, bed, nest, bench, lunch, bush, moth, bath, pinch, stink, clock, stop, spin, grab, trip, flock, thin, shot, smell, fell, punch, crush, frog, dress, west, math, pick, truck
Long vowels—cane, gain, train, stay, rake, feel, treat, beam, street, high, bike, tie, light, boat, go, toad, hole, phone, nose, bow, low, grow, cute, blue, chew, knew, use, tube, food, too
Note:
Students are not generating words; they are simply determining if the word has short or long vowels in it.