Short U Sound Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RF.1.2.A

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The short "u" vowel sound can be found in words such as: cup and bug. As you can see, the vowel sound is not pronounced in the same manner as the letter is pronounced. This makes it a short vowel sound. When translating speech to text, the short "u" sound always throws a monkey wrench into the situation. The worksheets found in this collection will help students learn the usage and identification of the short "u" vowel sound. Learning how to identify and pronunciate words that have this unique tone in them is the goal for you here.

Short U Sound Worksheets To Print:

Hear the Sound - It's always FUN to give a PUP a HUG. How many like terms can you make by adding letters to the beginning of each set of letters below? Add as many letters as you like. Fill in as many as you can.

Name That Pic... - I'm not sure that cow is confused. He is eating. The squirrel is really working away on his teeth.

Plug, Shut, Nun - The picture gives away the odd word out. Read the words from the word box. Find the sets of words that rhyme with the bolded word and write them on the lines.

Where You At? - Studious and rebuke are a little higher than we would expect here. Help them sound it out.

Caterpillars - They will all be butterflies soon enough. Depending on the tone that you, you will decide on which caterpillar you should color.

Search For It All Over - Make sure that the kids know that a sculpture is in the fourth row. You will need to say all the words aloud to hear what you are looking for.

Vowel Riddles - This is a guessing game. You will hear a description of something and then you need to decide which of the three choices was being described.

All Mixed-O Up - You will unscramble all of these words and then write them on the line that has been provided. The plumber isn't quite that clear and obvious.

U Ought to Be in Pictures - Draw the things that you need to understand. You can use the examples to figure out the sound once more.

Matcher - Match each picture to the correct word. The students might need help sounding out "subscription".

My Word Bank - You will use the bank of terms to decide what each picture represents. The baby definitely is not a fan of coffee.

Say It with a Picture - You will draw three pictures that represent terms that have the type of tone within them. A picture of a pug is my goal.

A Rote Activity - When you hear that sound being in the word, you will color it. Three "do not colors" in here.

Search For It - There are eight words in the puzzle that contain a short U. Find each word and write it on the line. Yes, NumChuck is in there.

I Hear It! Do You? - You will sort these words based on the vowel sowel that they give off. The words of confusion are: bustle, endure, ruin and sudden.

What Are Short U Sounds?

Words that do not allow vowel U to sound for a longer period or to sound in the way it should be sounded are called short U terms. Written and spoken content include a lot of vocabulary words that give off this tone. Locating and identifying the terms that exhibit this tone is quite easy. Given below are the techniques to locate short U sounds and some examples of vocabulary terms that share this quality:


How to Locate Them

An easier way to locate short U sound words is that such words never start or end with vowel U, but do contain letter U in the middle of the word. For example, the word "umbrella" is not a short sound word as it is starting from letter U and the letter U is also sounding for a longer time period. Another way to locate short sounds is by their pronunciation, as every one of this types of words is pronounced in a quite different way. While pronouncing these terms, the tongue first moves slightly forward to touch the frontal teeth and then immediately is lowered to touch the bottom teeth. In this way, the vowel U does not really sound like U. While pronouncing any word that contains letter U in its middle, be careful as it can be a short U sound word.


Examples of Terms That Demonstrate This Sound

Some commonly used short U sound words are "hut, but, stud, nut, gum, mug, pug, rug, bun, jump, mug, sun, jug, duck, bus, truck, up, pup, plum, drum, bun, bum, bus, bud, bug, but, cud, cut, cup, dug, fun, gun, gut, hum, hug, hut, jug, lug, mug, nun, nut, pun, pug , pup, rub, run, rum, rug, rut, sub, sun, sum, tug, snug, and so many other words that it is not possible to list them all in a single document.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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