Display letter cards a, e, i, o, and u.Say, "Today, we are going to learn about how vowels can sound in words. Review the letter names of the vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.Order our cost-saving Volume 1 Combo online. You can create your own mini-charts using the words in bold print letters in each verse of the Song Lyrics.įind out more about Sing Your Way Through Phonics products. Note: If you do not have the CD or Mini-Charts, you can still teach this short vowels and long vowels lesson plan using the folk tune listed on the Oh, Do You Know? Song Lyrics page. snake, rake, sheep, sleep, kite, night, goat, coat, flute, suit) Optional: Cards with medial-position long vowel pictures (ex.hat, cat, hen, pen, fish, dish, dog, log, gum, drum) Optional: Cards with medial-position short vowel pictures (ex.alligator, eggs, iguana, octopus, umbrella) Chart displaying short vowel symbols, words and pictures (ex.Chart displaying long vowel words and pictures (ex.Sing Your Way Through Phonics Volume 1 Mini-Charts (pp.Sing Your Way Through Phonics Volume 1 CD, Tracks 9 and 10 ( Listen to audio sample).Some other songs that teach students about vowel spelling patterns are the Volume 2 songs, Spelling Choices, Cool Vowels, The Right Diphthong, and I Before E, and t he Volume 3 songs Why Does Y? and Drop It!.
Long vowel spelling patterns are covered in the Volume 1 songs Talking and Walking and Silent E. When students have learned to recognize the vowel sounds in Oh, Do You Know?, they can learn short vowel spelling patterns through the Volume 1 song Spelling Families. Here are some examples of long vowel words: ate, each, ice, oak, use. Here are some examples of short vowel words: at, egg, it, ox, up.
The long vowels can be represented by a horizontal line above the vowel: ā, ē, ī, ō, ū. The short vowels can represented by a curved symbol above the vowel: ă, ĕ, ĭ, ŏ, ŭ. Before children can learn the rules for spelling and reading short and long vowel sounds, they must be able to recognize and produce these sounds reliably. The short o in pop sounds a lot like the short u in pup. Children generally find it more challenging to learn the short vowel sounds because many of them sound so similar to each other: The short i in pig sounds very similar to the short e in peg. For example, long a sounds like the a in able, long o sounds like the o in over, and long u may sound like the u in use or the u in blue. Of the two, the long vowels are easier for children to learn because long vowels basically sound the same as the letter names. The first step in mastering the various vowel sounds is learning the difference between short vowels and long vowels. Vowels in the English language can represent a variety of sounds.
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