The Startup Reading Long and Short Vowels Workbook, Book 4, combines and builds on the skills students developed in Books 2 and 3. The ability to differentiate between long and short vowel sounds provides an essential building block for decoding, reading, and comprehension skills.

Each reading skill is introduced and reinforced through a series of fun, interactive activities. Students gain the phonological awareness needed to read long and short vowel words, sentences, and short passages that build fluency and comprehension.

Throughout the workbook, students write long and short vowel accent marks before reading the words to visually identify the vowel sounds. Examples of the long and short vowel sound in words include:

cape/cap, team/ten, kite/kit, hope/hop, and cube/cub.

Students continue to use this strategy as they read short stories with decodable and grade-level sight words. As students cement their understanding and recognition of vowel sounds, it becomes easier to decode unfamiliar words independently. As a result, students increase their confidence as Super Readers!

Course Curriculum

Lesson 1 Sam’s Mom and Dad Need a Cap
Introduction to Course 4, Long and Short Vowels,1.00.1 FREE 00:00:00
Page 3, The Reading Code – B4 1.01.1 00:07:00
Page 6, Learn to Be a Vowel Detective – B4, 1.01.2 FREE 00:14:00
Page 3, Review: The Reading Code – B4, 1.02.1 00:07:00
Page 7-8 Say, Listen, and Circle: kite/kit – B4 1.02.2 00:13:00
Page 9, Read and Connect – B4, 1.03.1 00:13:00
Page 10 Read about Sam and the Cap -B4 1.04.1 00:15:00
1.04.2 Sight Word Alert! Color the sight words – B4 Page 11 00:05:00
1.05.1 Warm-up; The Reading Code – Page 3 00:07:00
1.05.2 Finish the Words – Page 12 00:09:00
Page 2, Warm-up: Consonant Sounds – B1, 1.06.1 00:05:00
Page 13 Connect the Letters – B4 1.06.2 00:08:00
Page 16 Write a Simple Sentence: Noun and Verb – B4 1.07.1 00:06:00
Page 15 Identify the Drawing – B4 1.07.2 00:06:00
Lesson 2: Mike waits for the Rain
Page 3 Review: The Reading Code – B2, 2.01.1 00:07:00
2.01.2 Learn to Be a Vowel Detective – page 18 00:20:00
2.02.1 Warm-up: Consonant Sounds – page 2 00:05:00
2.02.2 Say. Listen, and Circle: tap/tape – page 19 00:10:00
2.02.3 Say, Listen, and Circle: pine/pin – page 20 00:08:00
Page 21, Read and Connect with Near -B4, 2.04.1 00:23:00
page 22, Read the Story, Draw, and Discover, B4 2.05.1 00:22:00
Page 23, Sight Word Alert! – B6, 2.05.2 00:07:00
Page 24 Identify the Accent Mark – B4 2.06.1 00:17:00
Page 26, Connect the Letters – B4 2.07.1 00:08:00
Page 27 Write a Simple Sentence: Noun and Verb – B4 2.07.2 00:18:00
Page 3 Warm-up: The Reading Code – B4 2.08.1 00:07:00
Page 25 Cut, Match, and Glue- B4 2.08.2 00:16:00
Lesson 3: Pat and her Cat
3.00.1 Overview of Lesson 3, Book 3 00:00:00
Page 3, Long and Short Vowel Words, B5, 3.01.1 00:07:00
Page 30 Learn to Be a Vowel Detective – B4 3.01.2 00:19:00
Page 2, Review: Consonant Sounds – B1, 3.02.1 00:05:00
Page 31, Say. Listen, and Circle – B4, 3.02.2 00:11:00
3.02.3 Say, Listen, and Circle: pine/pin – B4 Page 32 FREE 00:10:00
Page 33, Read and Connect with Near – B4, 3.03.1 00:21:00
Page 34 Read the story about Pat – B4 3.04.1 00:14:00
Page 35 Color the sight words – B4 3.04.2 00:06:00
Page 3, Review: The Reading Code – B , 3.05.1 00:07:00
Page 36 Identify the Accent Mark – B4 3.05.2 00:17:00
Page 37 Singular or Plural – B4 3.06.1 00:07:00
Page 38, Read and Draw – B2, 3.06.2 00:09:00
Page 39 Identify the Drawing – B4 3.07.1 00:09:00
Page 40 Write a Simple Sentence – B4 3.07.2 00:09:00
Warm-up: The Reading Code B4 00:07:00
Level 4 Checkpoint Assessment 03:00:00
Lesson 4: Sam is a Cute Kitten
4.00.1 Overview Lesson 4, Book 4 00:00:00
Page 42 Learn to Be a Vowel Detective – B4, 4.01.1 00:22:00
Page 43 Learn to Be a Vowel Detective – B4 4.02.1 00:11:00
Page 44, Say, Listen, and Circle – B4, 4.02.2 00:08:00
Page 45 Read and Connect with Near – B4 4.03.1 00:22:00
Page 46 Sight Word Bank – B4 4.04.1 00:11:00
Page 46, Read Sam the Cute Kitten – B4, 4.04.2 00:23:00
Page 47 Sight Word Alert! -B4 4.04.3 00:06:00
Page 3 Warm-up: The Reading Code – B4 4.05.1 00:07:00
Page 48 Finish the Words – B4 4.05.2 00:11:00
Page 2 Warm-up: Consonant Sounds -B4 4.06.1 00:05:00
Page 49 Connect the Letters -B4 4.06.2 00:10:00
Page 50 Cut, Match, and Glue -B4 4.07.1 00:12:00
Page 51 Read and Draw -B4 4.08.1 00:08:00
Page 53 Write a Simple Sentence -B4 4.08.2 00:05:00
Page 52 Identify the Drawing -B4 4.08.3 00:05:00
Lesson 5: Quick Check on Vowels
Book 4 Lesson 5 Overview , B4 5.00.1 00:00:00
Page 56 Be a Vowel Detective B4 5.01.1 00:18:00
Page 57 Singular or Plural? – B4 5.02.1 00:03:00
Page 59 Rhyming Words-B4 5.02.1 00:05:00
5.03.1 Warm-up: The Reading Code – Page 3 00:07:00
Page 58 Identify the Accent Marks-B4 5.03.2 00:20:00
Page 61 Write and Simple Sentence-B4 5.04.1 00:07:00
Page 60 Identify the Drawing-B4 5.04.2 00:05:00
Page 14, Read and Draw – B4, 3.06.3 00:09:00
Level 4 Progress Assessment 03:00:00

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