Kindergarten Short U Worksheets
77 printable Kindergarten phonics worksheets on Short U. Every sheet has an answer key — 77 in all. 10 activity types: Build, Code Breaker, Cut And Glue Sort, Flashcards. The first three worksheets are free to download; All Access opens the rest and every answer key.
On these sheets: u; a, o and u; sun, fan, hat and top; hum to fuss; and more in the full list below. Each sheet is marked with the week it was written for: weeks 16 to 35 of Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency, Kindergarten.
What is in this set: Word Hunt (15), Cut And Glue Sort (13), Code Breaker (11), Fluency (9), Flashcards (8), Word Chain (8), Read And Draw (5), Build (4), Lesson (3) and Roll And Read (1).
Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency — Kindergarten, the complete K–5 reading curriculum from Faith Readers. Preview a reading week to see how its lessons run. See every program →
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Includes 10 activity types: Build, Code Breaker, Cut And Glue Sort, Flashcards, Fluency, Lesson, Read And Draw, Roll And Read, Word Chain, Word Hunt.
All 77 worksheets in this set
- Lesson 1: u Free PDF
- Cut And Glue Sort 1: a, o and u Free PDF
- Build 1: sun, fan, hat and top Free PDF
- Word Chain 1: hum to fuss
- Word Chain 2: mat to fun
- Word Chain 3: sum to men
- Fluency 1: up, us, fun and run
- Fluency 2: up, run, nut and puff
- Read And Draw 1: mud, nut, pup and sun
- Read And Draw 2: pup, sun, up and us
- Word Hunt 1: a, o and u
- Code Breaker 1: up, us, fun and fuss
- Code Breaker 2: us, up, nut and fun
- Code Breaker 3: us, run, pup and sun
- Roll And Read 1: run, fun, sun and nut
- Flashcards 1: sun, run, fun and mud
- Flashcards 2: sun, run, mud and nut
- Flashcards 3: sun, fun, mud and nut
- Cut And Glue Sort 2: a, o and u
- Fluency 3: can, cut, cat and cup
- Word Hunt 2: a, o and u
- Flashcards 4: can, cut, cup and cat
- Flashcards 5: cup, cut, cat and cap
- Lesson 2: b
- Word Chain 4: rib to but
- Fluency 4: but, bad, bus and bed
- Fluency 5: bit, rib, bad and rub
- Read And Draw 3: bat, bed, bun and bus
- Code Breaker 4: rub, bed, but and cub
- Code Breaker 5: bad, but, bin and bus
- Flashcards 6: but, bad, bed and bell
- Flashcards 7: but, bad, bed and bus
- Cut And Glue Sort 3: i, o and u
- Word Chain 5: pig to dog
- Word Chain 6: leg to hug
- Fluency 6: get, got, big and dog
- Fluency 7: dug, tag, hug and mug
- Read And Draw 4: big, dig, dog and dug
- Word Hunt 3: i, o and u
- Code Breaker 6: dug, hog, got and dig
- Code Breaker 7: dig, pig, bug and dog
- Cut And Glue Sort 4: i, o and u
- Fluency 8: kiss, kid, get and got
- Fluency 9: kid, kiss, mug and big
- Word Hunt 4: i, o and u
- Word Hunt 5: i, o and u
- Lesson 3: j
- Cut And Glue Sort 5: a, e and u
- Build 2: well, bat, cup and bus
- Word Chain 7: bad to jog
- Word Chain 8: duck to jog
- Read And Draw 5: jam, jet, jog and jug
- Word Hunt 6: a, e and u
- Code Breaker 8: an, on, jug and jet
- Code Breaker 9: us, jug, jog and pet
- Flashcards 8: jog, jug, jet and pen
- Cut And Glue Sort 6: a, e and u
- Build 3: well, bat, pot and pig
- Word Hunt 7: a, e and u
- Cut And Glue Sort 7: a, o and u
- Word Hunt 8: a, o and u
- Code Breaker 10: up, us, yell and zip
- Code Breaker 11: an, us, at and up
- Cut And Glue Sort 8: sh, ch and th
- Word Hunt 9: sh, ch and th
- Word Hunt 10: a, o and u
- Cut And Glue Sort 9: a, o and u
- Build 4: duck, bus, fan and bib
- Word Hunt 11: a, o and u
- Word Hunt 12: sh, ch and th
- Cut And Glue Sort 10: a, o and u
- Word Hunt 13: a, o and u
- Cut And Glue Sort 11: sh, ch and th
- Cut And Glue Sort 12: sh, ch and th
- Word Hunt 14: sh, ch and th
- Cut And Glue Sort 13: sh, ch and th
- Word Hunt 15: sh, ch and th
Teaching Short U
What it is
Short u is the /u/ sound heard in cup, sun, and bug, usually the last short vowel taught.
When a child is ready
Teach it when the other four short vowels are read accurately in simple words.
If they struggle
Short u is often confused with short o. Contrast pairs such as cot/cut and hog/hug, and let the child feel the difference: the jaw drops more for /o/ than for /u/.
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