In spoken English, it is easy to identify short vowel word, but this may not be the case in writing which is why there is a need to identify short vowel words with a distinctive symbol.
These words can be three letter words or words that have more than three letters. An example of this type of word can be "bug" because it does not emphasize a long 'U' sound. In other words, a word in which a vowel does not make a long sound is a short vowel word. Short vowel words refer to a word that does not allow the vowel in that word to make a long vowel sound. This is an engaging activity and something you can make a regular routine until the entire class has mastered it. You can then as a class review the sounds of certain words and have students raise their stick to match the sound. Take that card and glue it to on end of a popsicle stick. I find the blank side of thick note cards to be helpful. You can do this on any thick form of paper. Vowel Sticks - Have the students draw a picture to model each sound with letter written on the bottom. An example would be holding you hand around the bottom of your mouth when the doctor asks you to say ahh. When you reinforce a sound with a physical gesture it sinks in for students much quicker. I have seen teachers use all types of different signals you can choose your own. Hand Signals - I find this to be one of my most successful techniques in my bag of tricks for this unit. If they get lost, you can always come back to the picture to help them along. It gives students a mental place holder to ground them. If you are on the a vowels put up a picture of an alligator or another picture that reinforces what you are working on. If you want to engage students try to show them a picture that relates to the starting word. Picture Cues - This is critical, and I cannot stress this enough. Let me take a minute of your time to share with you the most successful teaching methods for approaching this topic. Having taught for over three decades, I can attest that three are more than a dozen different techniques to help students understand how these sounds are found in words. They also help children in guessing the spellings of different words. These types of words are really helpful when it comes to reading words. Both "U" and "E" have short vowel sounds in it. It is also assumed that longer words would contain long vowel sounds. However, they are the easiest examples that can be taught to children for their better understanding. It is not always necessary that the three lettered words would contain this sounds. Most three lettered words have these sounds in it. This is because when you pronounce it, there is no sound of the long "U" in it. Instead, it is pronounced in a different manner in the words.įor example, if we take the word "cup", it has a short vowel sound in it. However, a shorter version sound does not allow the letter to be pronounced like itself. Long vowel sounds are sounds that are pronounced exactly like the letter itself. They have two different sounds known as the long vowel sounds and short vowel sounds. They can be pronounced in two ways when used in words. All of these vowels have specific sounds. As there are a couple of elisions in blends, they can make it difficult to differentiate between the two types of phonemes.Īs children progress through the Kiz Phonics program, they will become skilled at sounding out consonant blends accurately.The English language consists of five vowels in total. When reading, it's important to recognize the subtle difference between a cr and a gr-sound for instance. For example, the letter "c" can be used as an aid for the /k/ sound which combines with 'r' to form the 'cr' blend. In order to help children develop this ability, they must learn the letters that form the blends of the two consonants. Many kids struggle with the consonant blends when they start to learn to read. The "n" final consonant blend is found in words such as nd, sand, and skunk. For example, the final letter in 'last' is an "s" and 't' consonant blend. These blends are grouped by the ending letters. Final blends, also called ending blends, occur at the end of a word. For example L blends such as CLown and CLoud have the C and L at the beginning. Then they can be taught to hear two consonants come together to form a blend.īeginning blends occur at the start of the word. This is why you should avoid these tricky combinations of consonants until individual sounds have been mastered.
Some children may not be able to hear each consonant sound that is in a consonant blend. When teaching students consonant blends, make sure they hear the sounds correctly.
Examples of consonant blends include: s blends as in stop, slow, small and snow. Learning to Read - Consonant Blends in PhonicsĬonsonant blends are tricky for children.
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