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Phonics (letters that have two sounds (vowels (A a (short a long a (long…
Phonics
letters that have two sounds
vowels
A a
short a
long a
long a sounds
The letters a, ai, ay,
make the long a sound in
April, paid, May
a
words
able, acorn, apron, agent
alien, angel
ai
words
(vowel teams)
mail, plain, train, gain, rain
fail, strain, contain, remain,
explain, again, grail, aim,
snail, trail, hail, vain, grain
ay
words
day, pay, say, tray, sway, portray,
play, essay, betray, relay, stay, gray,
pray, display,
short a sounds
ax, cat, habitat
If your not certain what vowel sound a word has try comparing it to the sound in cat or ax. Does is sound the same? or is it different?
sometimes
ei
sounds like long
a
This is rare but you will see it
in words such as
veil, vein, reign, weigh, neighbor,
eight, weight, beige, freight,
a_e
words can also make long a sounds
(magic e)
bake, cake, flame, escape, inflate, airplane, waste, activate, base,
blade, case, behave, grape, complicate, name, decorate, shade, erase, snake,
slave, shave, wave, ate
U u
O o
E e
sometimes
y
sounds like long
e
angry, happy, baby, empty,
body, every, glory, hungry,
family, thirty, very, twenty,
sorry, party
sometimes the
ey
on the end of words can
have a long
e
sound
monkey, turkey, honey, key,
donkey, kidney, valley, journey
I i
sometimes
y
sounds like long
i
fly, by, try, cry, buy, comply,
classify apply, magnify, my,
occupy, reply, simplify, unify
short e
long e
long e sounds
The letters e, ee, ea, and ie
make the long e sound in
he, bees, eat, and chief.
ee
words
speech, screech, need,
reed, seed, weed, bleed,
three, cheek, feel, screen,
free, queen, deep, weep,
between, creep, sheep, beer,
degree, steer, sweet, street,
breeze, freeze, coffee, bee,
deer, meet, heel, week, leek
ea
words
(vowel teams)
each, peach, reach, teach,
lead, read, leaf, beak, squeak,
deal, heal, squeal, fear, ear,
cheat, grease, breathe, leave,
please, east, reason, season
team, jeans weak, bean,
leak, peak, year, wheat,
ie
words
relieve, priest, relief, chieftain, grievous,
reprieve, field, belief, yield, thief, shriek,
besiege, piece, cashier, reprieve, brief,
pierce, sieve, siege, believe
e
words
me, she, he, be, we
short e sounds
egg, hen, step
elephant
Many students have trouble with short a and short e sounds. When trying to spell a word that has a vowel sound, think
-does the letter sound match the e in egg or hen? or does it sound like the a in pan or pat
e_e
words can also make long e sounds
(magic e)
athlete, eve, these, theme,
supreme, extreme, Pete, gene
here, Chinese, Japanese, compete
complete
short i
long i
short i sounds
igloo, hip, pit, grin
When making the short vowels sounds remember that the mouth should be open taller when you say the short E sound than when you say the short I sound.
long i sounds
The letters i, igh, and ie
make the long i sound in
hi, high, and pie
i
words
pilot, item, iron, idea,
idol, ivory
i_e
words can also make long i sounds
(magic e)
five, nine, drive, life, like, alive, crime, slide, slice, price, prize, hive, pipe, pine, knife,
shine, smile, white, pile, rise, ice, lice, twice