Short u Words – FREE PDF Download

Children continue to memorize and recognize familiar words. Seeing, reading, and remembering the most common words used in grade-level texts is essential to their reading skills in the future.

Below are a variety of common short u words, which children learn to decode in kindergarten. Finding different ways to practice these will ensure students can quickly and easily read these words when they encounter them.

Short u Words

The short u word list includes the following words:

bluff	chug	dug	hub	mug	puck	rust	sud
blush	chum	dump	hug	mull	puff	rut	sum
brush	club	dust	hum	mush	pug	shush	sun
Bub	cluck	flub	hunt	muss	pump	shut	thug
buck	crush	flush	hush	must	pun	slug	truck
bud	crust	fun	hut	mutt	punt	slush	trump
buff	cub	fund	jug	nub	pup	snub	trust
bug	cud	fuss	jump	nuck	push	snuck	tub
bum	cuff	glug	jut	nun	putt	snug	tuck
bump	cup	grub	luck	nut	rub	struck	tug
bun	cut	gruff	lug	pluck	rug	strut	tush
bus	donut	gum	lump	plug	rum	stub	us
bush	dub	Gus	lush	plump	run	stuck	yuck
but	duck	gush	muck	plush	runt	stuff
chuck	dud	gut	mud	pub	rush	sub

Closing

Teaching these words can be done in a variety of creative ways like word hunts, memory games, activity mats, and tracing sheets. No matter how they learn them, these words will increase their confidence and reading skills, and set them up for reading success.

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