Evaluate your student’s ability to build words with short u and long u.

Give your student a piece of paper and a pencil. Say the word cup to your student. Ask them to write the word on the piece of paper. Say the word cute. Ask your student to write the word cute on the piece of paper.

My student is able to build words with short u and long u.

They were able to write both "cup" and "cute" correctly on the piece of paper. They demonstrated an understanding of the different vowel sounds and their corresponding spelling patterns. Overall, my student showed proficiency in building words with short u and long u.