Monkey’s Missing Middle
The monkey dropped the middle of every word! Write the missing vowel in each box.
How did it go?
One tap, no writing, no name. Pick the face that matches how it went — reactions are counted instantly and stay anonymous.
Parent reviews.
A different thing from the quick faces above: a star rating for the grown-ups, plus an optional line about how it went. Every review is read by the school office before it appears.
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Parent comments.
How did you use this page Share the game, the moment or the trick that worked in your house. Comments are read by the school office before they appear, and they are about your ideas — never about your child.
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Why this adventure helps.
This activity trains middle vowels right on the adventure picture, with one short written instruction a grown-up can read aloud. Nothing is graded and nothing is scored — the win is a child who picked up a pencil, played with the sounds they hear in words, and saved work they are proud of. Saying the sounds cleanly (sss, not “suh”) as they draw is exactly how reading research says to teach them.
Prefer paper? The Monkey’s Missing Middle worksheet brings the same activity to the kitchen table with a parent-read sound script and an answer line — printing a worksheet never marks a class complete.
Where next?
Phonics & Beginning Sounds
The class behind these adventures — with all 24 listening games and the off-screen sound play ideas.
Open Class 28Monkey’s Missing Middle worksheet
The printable twin of this game — parent sound script, answer line, PDF.
Open the worksheetEarly Writing Adventures
Trace winding paths, loops and zigzags with a finger or stylus — thirty pencil-control games.
Open the Writing Library