Short & Long Vowels — Answer Key
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. We went sailing on a wooden boat at the lake.
Boat uses the oa vowel team, where o and a work together and the o says its long name.
2. White snow covered the ground in winter.
Snow uses the ow vowel team at the end of the word, making the long-o sound that says its name.
3. The frog can hop from rock to rock.
Hop is a CVC word with one o between two consonants, making the short-o sound we hear in pot and top.
4. Mom cooked soup in a big pot.
Pot is a CVC word where the single o stays short because no silent e or vowel team follows it.
5. The farmer planted rows of oats in the field.
Oats uses the oa vowel team at the start, where o says its long name and a stays silent.
6. The wind began to blow through the trees.
Blow ends in ow, a vowel team where the o says its long name and the w is silent at the end.
7. A little moth landed on the flower.
Moth has a single o between consonants, so the vowel stays short like in hop, pot, and top.
8. The baby goat likes to eat dry hay.
Hay uses the ay vowel team for long-a, a useful contrast to the long-o oa team we are studying here.
9. The train runs very slow down the track.
Slow uses the ow vowel team, so the o makes the long-o sound and says its own name clearly.
Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1. Match each item to its correct answer.
boat
→ long-o with oa team
long-o with oa team
hop
→ short-o CVC jumping word
short-o CVC jumping word
snow
→ long-o with ow team
long-o with ow team
pot
→ short-o CVC cooking word
short-o CVC cooking word
Boat shows the oa long-o team, hop is a short-o CVC word, snow shows the ow long-o team, and pot is a short-o CVC word.