![]() When learning to identify those long A words, your kindergartener should understand that there are a few different way to make them. You just have to learn those rules that I talked about earlier. Learning these long sounds gives your kindergarteners the ability to really expand the list of words that they’ll then be able to read and spell. Now, like I said before, we typically start learning vowel sounds by covering the short vowel sounds first as these are much more common and give kids the opportunity to immediately start reading short CVC words, but moving onto those long vowel sounds is also really exciting. Today, we’re going to focus on that long A sound and the long A words that your kindergartener will be able to read and spell with it. You’ll find far more rules and ways to make these sounds and a few new exceptions to the rules as well. We start with the short vowel sounds as those are typically what are seen most often in regular day to day reading, and those are usually picked up pretty quickly.īut once we move onto the long vowel sounds, we slow way down. I try to keep this in mind when we first start learning to read. It can be confusing enough to rattle the brain of a fully grown adult, but for a kindergartner that’s just learning to read, it can be even worse. The English language is known for its quirky rules that don’t always make a whole lot of sense and the many exceptions to those rules that you’ll encounter. They might look like simple, single letters, but these five (sometimes six) little letters can make multiple sounds and do so in multiple ways. ![]() There are only 15 words in English that include this vowel team.Learning vowel sounds can be rough on kids. Many of these words are borrowed from French. The vowel team is often found in the middle of base words like s oup, but it can also be found at the end like y ou. But we include it here because it represents the long /oo/ sound, just like the other six spelling patterns found in this section. (It’s actually considered the long /oo/ sound). ![]() OU is not technically a long U vowel sound. *OO can also make the short sound heard in words like book, hood, or soot. This team can be used in the middle and at the end of words. These two vowels create the special English vowel sound /oo/ heard in the words below. □□ Teaching Tip: Do not move on to teaching the next 3 spelling patterns until your students have demonstrated a strong command of the four most frequent spellings of long U. Most words ending in UE will have the /oo/ sound, like those found below. This vowel team is used only at the end of of base words like gl ue. This vowel team appears at the end of a base word and says the /oo/ sound in the words below. These words have lost the /y/ sound of long U, and the resulting sound is /oo/. □ Remember, students should try both sounds /yoo/ and /oo/ when reading these words to listen for which one sounds right. □♀️ Many Magic E words include the U-E pattern and and make the long /oo/ sound. One can clearly hear the /oo/ sound within the word at the end of the open syllable. In all 30 words listed below, one of the syllables is open and ends in the letter U. □□ Although there are many different long vowel spellings, I focus my instruction heavily on the ones we find most frequently in text, marked with an asterisk (*) above.īelow you’ll find each of the seven ways to spell long U along with many common words where the /oo/ sound is clearly heard. □ The reason for this? It’s difficult to pronounce the /y/ sound after many consonants, especially L and R. The second sound of long u sound is clearly different from the first sound because the /y/ part of the long U sound /yoo/ is lost, resulting in the /oo/ sound. EU (Vowel Team)ĮU is a vowel team used within the baseword, usually at the beginning or in the middle. *UE can also be a silent ending at the end of a word after the letter g or q (like vague, morgue, unique, etc). ![]() In this vowel team, the U+E join together to make the long U sound. Vowel team EW is used at the end of base words like the ones listed below. The W is considered a vowel in this team. The E at the end will stay silent, making the U says it’s name. In this silent E spelling, the ū sound will be in the middle of the word. □ The u– consonant- e pattern is another way to spell long ū. □ English words do not end in the letter U, so we will rarely see an open syllable U at the end of a word unless it is derived from another language (e.g. We call syllables that end in a vowel open syllables.Īn open syllable can be at the beginning of a word like u/ni/corn OR in the middle of a word like d u/ty. The letter U will be long in a syllable that ends with the letter U. □□ I focus most of my instruction on the spelling patterns we find most frequently in text, marked with an asterisk (*) above.
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