When you say the word “apple,” the a sound is short. But when you say the word “aardvark,” the a sound is long. Why is this? The a sound can be long or short depending on the word. This is because the a sound is a vowel sound. Vowel sounds are made by making your…
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Long E Vowel Sound
The long e vowel sound is one of the most common sounds in the English language. This sound is made by lengthening the vowel in the word “bed” to make “beeeeeed”. It can also be found in the word “me”, as in “mEEEEeee”. This sound is typically produced with a higher pitch than other vowel…
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When we are reading aloud, there are certain words that are pronounced with a long O sound. This can be difficult for students who are just learning to read, because the long O sound can be confused with the short O sound. Here is a list of words that are pronounced with a long O…
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A is for apple, and also for acorn, airplane, and alligator. The long a sound is heard in words like these, which all have the common spelling pattern a_e. This letter combination can make either the long a sound or the short a sound, as in the words bake and bat. To make the long…
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The Long I Sound Rule states that when two vowels are together in a word, the first vowel is long and the second vowel is silent. For example, the word ‘time’ has the long I sound because the letter ‘I’ is the first vowel in the word. The letter ‘e’ is silent. There are a…
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