Halloween Easy Reader Book: Short Vowels Words

There are loads of great Halloween words to learn and a lot of the words have short vowels. They are fun to turn into a little short vowel easy reader book.

I always get asked for more easy reader books and I really do love making them. Today’s free Halloween easy reader book with short vowel words is a fun way to and some word work in around Halloween.

FREE Halloween Easy Reader Book: Short Vowels Words - simple sight word and short vowel words with Halloween themes with sound it out cards and pocket chart sentences - 3Dinosaurs.com

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I love that this is a great addition to the Halloween Printables on the site.

I know that at the start of the year loads of people are looking for simple easy reader books. And that is just what this book is. It has just a few pages, simple sentences, repeat words, and matching extras to help with learning.

You are going to have 5 short vowel words: bat, cat, hat, frog, and web. They are in the book, sound it out cards and the pocket chart sentences.

Each page of the easy reader book has a simple sentence. You can see an example of one of the pages below.

Things to use with the Halloween Easy Reader Book

I always get asked what items we use with the printables. And here is a list with links to Amazon to help you out.

How to make the Halloween Easy Reader Book

First, you line up the papers so that they are all straight. Then you cut down the middle on the paper.

Second, you alternate the pages. You can see the odd pages are on top and the even pages are on the bottom.

Finally, you staple the book along the edges. You can put in three or four staples. I like to do as many as I think will help the book hold up.

Ways to use the Halloween Easy Reader Book & Pocket Chart Cards

Sound it out or Blend Cards

The set has some sound cards for the short vowel words. They have dots below each of the letters to help with sounding out the words.

You can see below we used clear glass gems to cover the dots. You place a glass gem as you say each of the letters.

You can also use clothespins for this. It helps build their fine motor skills at the same time.

Reading the Book Halloween Book

The first time through you might want to add the sound it out cards. So you have the book and the cards they can go through. Or you could just read the book. The fun part is that you can change this up for the needs of the child.

Pocket Chart Cards

In the set, you have a bunch of pocket chart cards. These cards work great for working on sentence order. Each sentence has the same picture at the top. Easy for them to see which cards belong to which sentence.