1. Vowels & New Vocabulary Words

2. What are Vowels?
A vowel is a letter and sound that you make when you speak without closing your mouth.

3. What letters are vowels?I O U
And sometimes Y

4. Why do we need vowels? Vowels are in words we write.
We say vowels when we read.
All normal English words have at least one vowel.

5. This week’s vocabulary words:
Dinner
Towel
Table
Toad
Light
6. Spoon
7. Window
8. Picture
9. String
10. Balloon

6. Locate the vowels
Dinner
Towel

7. Locate the vowels
Table
Toad

8. Locate the vowels
Light
Spoon

9. Locate the vowels
Window
Picture

10. Locate the vowels
String
Balloon

11. Vowel Sounds Short vowel sounds have a short sound when pronounced.
Long vowel sounds have a long sound when pronounced.

12. Short Ă sound
Axe
Cat
Hat

13. Short Ĕ sound
Elephant
Check
Elbow

14. Short Ĭ sound
Stick
Picture
Lick

15. Short Ŏ sound
Block
pot
Stop

16. Short Ŭ sound
Umbrella
Puppy Up

17. Long Ā sound
Ape
Lake
Rain

18. Long Ē sound
Beak
neat
Sweet

19. Long Ī sound
Ice
Nice
rice

20. Long Ō sound
Road
loan
rope

21. Long Ū sound
Tube
Uniform
Music

22. Words that use Y as a vowel
Mystery
Gym
Egypt

23. When two vowels go walking