Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to add seasonal fun to your phonics lessons! 🦃 In this post, you’ll find a variety of Thanksgiving vowel activities that help children practice short vowels, long vowels, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, and even the schwa sound. These printables and hands-on matching game makes phonics review engaging for children, all while using cheerful, Thanksgiving A to Z vocabulary words.
My 8 year old boy, currently in the 3rd grade, still needs ample amounts of phonics practice every day. Phonics remains our top priority every school day, and I am slowly seeing results of this consistent practice. While we do use our phonics-heavy spelling curriculum and phonics-heavy literature lessons every day, a bit of variety in learning never hurts!
My son asked me last week if I would make a Thanksgiving version of these phonics puzzles, and so of course I said yes! While he knows I also post them here for all of you, it does make him feel special that I made them especially for him. Because I did! ❤️
➡️ Browse through the multitude of phonics worksheets and activities here at Mama’s Learning Corner. You will find color by sight words, blends and digraphs practice, CVC and CVCe word worksheets, and much more!
🦃 Looking for more Thanksgiving ideas? Browse through the Thanksgiving Worksheets and Printables page. You’ll find a variety of activities including a writing booklet, word searches, File Folder activities, and more!
Thanksgiving Vowel Activities – Phonics Puzzles
I have mentioned several times that my son does not enjoy the physical act of writing. We started cursive a few months ago, and that has seemed to help with his pencil aversion. He still is one to choose a hands-on activity over pencil writing, so this style of learning is still just right for him.
This activity is the perfect mix of writing and matching. After matching several of the fall vocabulary words and vowels or vowel teams, he will need to write those words on the phonics worksheet that is in this packet.
What’s Included in this Thanksgiving Phonics Packet
In this Thanksgiving phonics packet, you will find:
🦃26 Thanksgiving vocabulary picture cards with a vowel or vowel team matching cards
🦃 2 worksheets to practice the Thanksgiving vocabulary vowels and vowel teams
🦃 2 answer keys for the worksheets
🦃 A helpful guide for using these in your homeschool or classroom
The following is how we will use these vowel puzzle cards this week. Take these ideas and make them work for your situation, whether it is at home or in the classroom!
🍂 Don’t miss the Fall version of this packet! Click here: Fall Vowel Activities and Worksheet packet
How to Use Thanksgiving Vowel Activities and Puzzle Cards
There are 26 Thanksgiving vocabulary words included in this packet – one for each letter of the alphabet. I will pull 13 of the cards for my son to use at the time. Because he still finds vowels and vowel team sounds a bit challenging, I will only have him work with a half at the time. Feel free to use the whole stack at once if your child is able to do that!
One side of the puzzle card contains the Thanksgiving picture and vocabulary word. The goal is to match the picture card correctly to its vowel or vowel team match. Each word has a vowel or vowel team underlined to indicate which match should be found.
For example, the word ‘turkey’ has the -UR underlined. Your child should match the turkey card with the card that states ‘R-controlled.’ After matching the card, review the other R-controlled words listed at the bottom to reinforce the sound and spelling.
You can also have your child brainstorm other R-controlled words with similar spellings. Make a list on a piece of paper or the white board for visual learners.
I included a list of each type of vowel and vowel team in this packet. You might choose to match only the short vowel sounds. Or you can match only the vowel teams. One day, you could choose to only work on Bossy R and Schwa sounds.
After matching the cards and reading the example words at the bottom of each, your child can practice these vowels and vowel teams one more time on the worksheets provided.
There are two worksheets included: one with the first 13 Thanksgiving vocabulary words and the second contains the second set of 13 Thanksgiving vocabulary words. Children can use a regular pencil to write the Thanksgiving words once, and then use a red pencil to write back over the vowel or vowel team and then underline it once more to isolate it.
You can not practice isolating the vowel sound too many times!
If you have an All Access Pass you can download this entire packet.
Log in to your All Access Pass account, and head straight over to the Thanksgiving and Christmas Pages. Scroll down until you see this particular packet.
You can purchase the Thanksgiving Vowel Activities Packet here:
Thanksgiving Vowel Sounds Practice – A to Z Phonics Puzzles + Worksheets
Reinforce vowels and vowel teams with this set of Thanksgiving Vowel Sounds Practice Puzzle Cards
Includes 26 matching cards and 2 worksheets with answer keys.
More Thanksgiving Worksheets and Activities for your Students:
Holiday Homeschool Planning Challenge
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