Middle sounds: Download free worksheets to trace, colour and learn

Middle sounds are the vowel sounds you hear when you pronounce a one-syllable word that begins with a consonant and ends with a consonant. The words ‘bed’ and ‘dog’ have the middle sounds short ‘e’ (eh) and short ‘o’ (or).

Middle sounds also appear as vowel teams as in the long-a sound ‘ai’ in ‘wait’, long-e sound ‘ea’ in ‘meal’ and long-u sound ‘oo’ in ‘pool’. These vowel teams help to make most vowel sounds long. See vowel teams worksheets to learn more.

These free worksheets with middle sounds will help you to explore short vowels as middle sounds made with the 5 vowels of the alphabet.

Download free middle sounds worksheets

Click the links to download free worksheets to trace, colour and have fun with middle sounds.

Middle sound a – cat

Middle sound e – bed

Middle sound o – dog

Middle sound i – pig

Middle sound u – sun

See also:

ABC letters: Download free worksheets, A-Z, vowels, consonants, sounds

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Middle sounds: Download free worksheets to trace, colour and learn

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