Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words

key notes:

🏛️Vowels can be short or long. A long vowel says its name. A short vowel does not.


🏛️When a vowel is followed by just consonants, it usually does not say its name. It makes a short vowel sound instead.

🏛️When a vowel is followed by a consonant and a silent e, the vowel says its name. It makes a long vowel sound.

🏛️When a vowel is followed by another vowel, the two vowels sometimes
make a vowel digraph.

The first vowel in a vowel digraph says its name. It
makes a long vowel sound. The other vowel is silent. Some vowel digraphs are
ai, ee, ea, ie, oa and ue.

Learn with an example

Sort the words by their vowel sounds

  • Home
  • load
  • rob
  • cot
  • box
Short o Long o
____________

🐯In these words, the vowel o does not say its name. It makes the short o
sound instead:
rob cot box
🐯In these words, the vowel o says its name. It makes the long o sound:
home load

Sort the words by their vowel sounds.

  • spoke
  • boat
  • joke
  • log
  • hot
Short oLong o
__________

🐅In these words, the vowel o does not say its name. It makes the short o
sound instead:
log hot
🐅In these words, the vowel o says its name. It makes the long o sound:
spoke boat joke

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