Vowel Sounds

My first post for April! 

The six-year-old girl I've been working with has been learning to read blends and doing so well! Bl, tr, st, ch... 

But she's started to get confused about what sounds the vowels make. So I've decided to take a break from her workbook and go back over the sounds of A,E,I,O,U.

I have special lined paper in a book for young writers, and I wrote the vowels across the top of a two-page spread with lines representing columns. Then I would say a word with a vowel sound in it, like "cat," for example. Then she would need to recognize which vowel sound she was hearing, and write the word under the correct letter. (A) 

I used some really easy words like bat, sit, had, dog, cup, etc. but I also included some of the newer words she's been learning, like play, trip, chug, and so on. She did okay, but she really had to think about the sounds. So I'm going to be working on the vowel sounds with her over the next couple of weeks (I tutor her once a week.) 

Hopefully she'll remember them quickly and we will be able to move on. (She's always had a hard time with the short E sound, even though her name begins with an E and she knows how to spell it.)