Vowel Team Matching Cards
You can work on learning words in many different ways. Vowel team words are words that have two vowels that make one sound.
These vowel team match cards are a great way to work on matching a picture with a vowel team word with a written vowel team word.
The free vowel team matching cards printable is part of the 12 Days of Subscriber Freebies.
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This is a great addition to the vowel team printables on the site.
What is a Vowel Team?
Vowel teams are two vowels that work to make one sound.
These are words like rain, mail, fruit, and seed.
The common vowel teams are: ai, ay, ea, ee, ie, oa, oe, ue, and UI.
You have two sets of cards a picture of a word with a vowel team and then a written word for them to find.
You are going to find the following vowel team matching cards:
mail – rain
play – tray
leaf – read
seed – sleep
die – pie
boat – road
toe – doe
clue – glue
suit – fruit
Things to use with the Vowel Team Matching Card Printables
These are just a few of the items that we use with these vowel team matching cards. You can see how some of these were used below.
- printer
- white cardstock
- 1 inch ring
- tabletop pocket chart
- laminator
- laminating pouches
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Ways to Use the Vowel Team Matching Cards Printable
These are just a few ways to use the vowel team matching cards.
Vowel Team Matching Game
You can make this a matching game with the cards. You have pictures on one side and words on the other side. Then you can have them said the words for each of the pictures and cards. Then matching the vowel team that match.
You can see one of the matches here. It is a simple way to match and then have them say the words and the point out the vowel team in the word.
Match on Table Top Pocket Folder
You can also just give them a stack of cards and have them match the cards in a table top pocket chart. These are super fun to use with matching cards.
Matching Vowel Team Cards on Rings
You can put the vowel team cards on rings. Then have kids flip through the cards and make the matches. You can also have kids write the matches. You can grab some blank paper here for writing.
Underline the Vowel Team on the Cards
You can also have kids work on just finding the vowel team on the written word. They can underline the vowel team words.
You can see we used a red crayon to underline the vowel team on the word.
More Vowel Team Printables
If you are looking for something else to use with these cards you can use the vowel team coloring pages.
A lot of the pictures and words match with the vowel team matching cards.
Vowel Team Coloring Pages
You have fun coloring pages with two or three pictures on each page to color and then words to trace. There is also a version where you can write the words as well.
What you will find in the Vowel Team Coloring Page Printables
- 9 different vowel Teams
- the following vowel teams: – ai words, -ay words, -ea words, -ee words, -ie words, -oa words, -oe words, -ue words, -ui words.
- Page for tracing the word
- Page for writing in the word
- 18 pages
- Price: $2.50
What you will find in the Free Vowel Team Matching Cards
- 1 vowel team picture and 1 vowel team matching card
- 9 sets of cards to match
- Vowel team set: ai, ay, ea, ee, ei, oa, oe, ue, and ui.
- 3 pages
More Vowel Team Printables
Vowel Team Ladders is a great spelling activity where kids can make words with that vowel team.
Vowel Team Trace, Find & Color has you trace the words and then find the matching pictures before for the words and color them.
Vowel Team Playdough Mats with vowel team letters for building words and mats with pictures and playdough mat for the vowel teams vowels.
Check out all the fun Vowel Team Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com