Snowball Fight Game: Long Vowel Card Set

Short vowel CVC words and their magic e partners share a snow-themed card deck that plays three ways: Snap, Snowball Fight or a board game.
Year levels
Years 1–2
File type
PDF
Preparation
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Updated Sep 18, 2026

Subject
Phonics, Language Development, English
Topic
Card Game, Literacy Centre
Resource types
Games
Preparation
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Australian Curriculum content descriptions
AC9E1LY11 — use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and…

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About this resource

This resource is a Snowball Fight Long Vowel Card Game.

These cards make for a great literacy centre, whole group or small group intervention.

Game options are:

  • - Snap

  • - Snowball fight

  • - Board game

Directions are included for however you choose to utilise these cards.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Read CVC and CVCe words accurately

  • Distinguish short and long vowel sounds when a final e is added

Teaching tips

  • For Snap, the directions say to print and laminate two copies of each word set so matching cards turn up during play.

Skills covered

  • Decoding CVC and CVCe words — reading word cards aloud during each turn

  • Contrasting vowel sounds — sorting out short a, i, o and u from their long vowel forms

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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

  • AC9E1LY11 — use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and blend these to read one- and two-syllable words

Core concepts

  • CVC words

  • CVCe words

  • Magic e

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