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To produce a vowel sound, you only need to adjust the shape of your mouth.

With consonants, kids can feel the friction created while using their tongue, lips, or teeth to produce the sounds. One of the challenges with vowel sounds is that they can’t exactly be “felt” in the mouth. Most kids actually pick up consonant pronunciations much more quickly. Join 17 other subscribers.It’s not uncommon for children to struggle with vowels. Short and long vowels aren’t the only vowel sounds, and the other vowels will be discussed next time.Ĭheck out the Facebook page: Aa is for Alpacas. Remember that this is English, and there are almost invariably exceptions.

If you say each of these aloud, it is very clear that the first half of the pair uses the sound made by the vowel, and the second half uses the vowel’s name. See how you can use a bossy ‘e’ to change a short vowel to a long vowel with these minimal pairs: can/cane bet/beet rid/ride hop/hope cut/cute. The ‘e’ is silent.”) Examples are “bake”, “seed”, “hike”, “poke”, “mute”. (“The ‘e’ on the end makes the vowel say its name. This is often referred to as the “bossy ‘e’” or the “magic ‘e’”. Another way of creating a long vowel sound is by putting an ‘e’ on the end of the word.As a result, the word usually makes the sound of the first vowel’s name (“When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking”). Putting two vowels next to each other.There are several ways of making long vowels. If there is more than one consonant, the vowel is almost always short, eg. When syllables end in a vowel and then a consonant (as in the examples above), the vowel is usually short. In each case we pronounce the vowel as its basic sound. The easiest short vowel words are 3-letter CVC words eg. WHAT DO SHORT AND LONG VOWELS LOOK LIKE? Short Vowels. Short and long vowels? Who cares? I’d rather have a zzzzz.