BCSC 1st Grade Vowel Patterns
The following lists are not all-inclusive, but most common. They are a minimum students at 1st grade should read and understand how to create words with these vowel patterns by the current school year end. Others may be added based on your classroom of students.
Incorporate vowel patterns into working with words study.
1st Grade-a / jam / ran / dad / hat / cab / map / cat / flat / clap / back / trap / that / wag / bag
a_e / face / save / grade / made / age / date / page / maze / cake / base / tape / plane / came / sale
-ay / day / hay / lay / may / pay / play / say / spray / stay / away / okay / today / ray / tray
-i / rip / tip / six / tin / sip / sit / hit / fill / rib / dig / big / sick / pink / dish
-i_e / tribe / nice / hide / life / bike / mile / dime / line / pipe / white / wise / bite / five / fire
-y(i) / by / cry / dry / fly / my / spy / try / why / July / apply
-o / hot / mop / lock / job / rock / rod / dog / frog / doll / drop / hot / not / top / lost
-o / go / no / so
-o_e / robe / rode / broke / hole / home / bone / rope / rose / note / drove / poke / spoke / joke / broke
-e / bed / red / wet / set / let / met / left / leg / belt / men / bell / help / end / sent
-e / be / he / me / she / we
-ee / bee / free / street / see / three / tree / seem / feed / peer / deep / green / week / feel / need
-u / cup / bus / fun / rug / club / sun / bug
-u_e / mule / use / rude / cube / huge / fume / fuse / cute / mule / puke