What are the vowel blends?

This six book series includes the vowel blends: ai, ea, ee, oa, oo, and ou. These easy readers feature and highlight vowel blends used in common words and children’s names. The most common vowel blends are color-coded for easy identification and pronunciation.

What are words with short vowel sounds?

A short vowel word is any word that doesn’t allow the vowel within it to generate that vowel’s long vowel sound. For example, the word “bug” is a short vowel word because there’s no long “U” sound.

Does June have a short U sound?

The second Long-U sound is almost the same as Long-U-1, except that it has only two parts (in IPA: /uw/). Some words with this sound are: true / flute / blue / June / spruce / tune / rule / tube / duty / include.

What are the 5 short vowel sounds?

The 5 short vowel sounds are:

  • short a: /æ/ cat.
  • short e: /ɛ/ bed.
  • short i: /ɪ/ sit.
  • short o: /ɑ/ top.
  • short u: /ʌ/ sun.

How do you blend words examples?

Here we provide 15 commonly used blend words:

  1. brunch = breakfast + lunch.
  2. biopic = biography + picture.
  3. glimmer = gleam + shimmer.
  4. camcorder = camera + recorder.
  5. motel = motor + hotel.
  6. sitcom = situation + comedy.
  7. clash = clap + crash.
  8. smash = smack + mash.

How many vowel blends are there?

We have 18 vowel sounds in English but only 5 vowel letters with which to represent them so it is necessary to use combinations of the vowel letters. The correct terminology for 2 vowels working together to represent one sound is ‘vowel digraph’.

Is cute a long u or short u?

For example ‘u’ can have a short vowel sound (‘u’ as in ‘cut) or a long vowel sound (‘u’ as in ‘cute’). All these words contain a long ‘u’ sound made in different ways.

Is cute a long u word?

The u silent e spelling pattern is also common, but much less than u alone. This one is usually in the middle of a base word. Examples include cute, rule, and fume. It can make either the /oo/ or the /y/ /oo/ sound.