Short Vowels Learning Mats

The Short Vowels Mats kit contains ten colorful two-sided game mats, 60 pigs labeled with short-vowel words, and wipe-off crayons. In addition, four blank pigs are provided for use as replacements, in case a labeled pig gets lost or damaged--simply use a permanent marker to write the missing word on the piece. The kit is designed to meet the following key instructional goals: using letter-sound knowledge to identify words with short vowels distinguishing the short-vowel sound in words developing automaticity (fluency) in reading words with short vowels writing words with short vowels developing vocabulary For use with Grades K-2.