Vowel Worksheets

As my second grade teacher often reminded me: A, E, I, O, and U make the English language go around. The English alphabet consists of twenty-six letters. The letters are classified into two categories by linguists: consonants and vowels. There are five letters that are always classified as vowels: a, e, i, o, and u. The letter y can function as a vowel in choice circumstances but is not considered a vowel. Every other letter in the alphabet is considered a consonant. When you pair a vowel with a consonant or group of consonants it will form a syllable. These vowel worksheets will help students better understand how vowel contribute sounds to words.


Assonance - This is a literary device that is often used in different forms of poetry. It hinges on the repetition of the vowel sounds while lacking repeating consonants.

Changing Phonemes to Make New Words - This really helps you see the similarities and familiarities that are present in word families. It also helps you solve crossword puzzles quicker.

CVC Words - We explore words such as (cat) that follow a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. This is usually the first real language unit at the Kindergarten level.

CVCe (Silent e) - This is where you build up from the topic we just covered. These words end in the letter (e), but it does not give off any sound.

CVVC Word - These are four letter words that are packed with a blend sound in the middle.

Decoding Multisyllable Words - We show you a flexible and common-sense approach to bring these terms to speech. In most cases, these are vocabulary terms that you are unfamiliar with.

Diagraphs - This is when you have two letters that are grouped together, but they only give off one sound.

Diphthongs - This is a unique tone that is given off by two vowels that are located within the same syllable. There are thought to be classifications of them, but I have seen linguists slant that value in both directions.

Diphthong, Vowel Digraph and Pattern - These worksheets build off of the past topic, but they add another element of difficulty by analyzing sequences and patterns that may exist.

Isolate and Pronounce Phonemes - We explore phonemic awareness strategies that help students tackle words that are completely new to them.

Long A - The pack of worksheets just focus on words that exhibit this sound within them.

Long E - We move on to one of the most popular units to begin the year with for teachers.

Long I - This can be tricky unit because I find students have difficulty pronouncing these words.

Long O - You will find that the words that exhibit this sound will have eight different phonetic spellings.

Long U - This is a nice place to start when learning these types of sounds in your phonics units.

Long Vowel Sounds - Whereas the past five worksheet topics have singled out each individual sound, which look at them collectively in this topic.

R Controlled Vowels - This is when the sound is proceeded by the letter (r) and as a result the pitch of the sound is ultimately changed.

Long vs. Short Vowels - We look at letters that dictate the sounds that are focused on them. Some sound in words just like their letters and others do not.

Short Vowel Sounds - When they just do not correspond with the letter names themselves.

Short A Sound - You hear this in words like: ask, bag, gap, sad, and van.

Short E Sound - Here is a list of words that fit this pattern: bed, fed, hen, men, and wet.

Short I Sound - The words (big, did, fit, pig, and win) fall into this category.

Short O Sound - You will find this in words like: dog, hot, mom, pop, and top.

Short U Sound - The most often used example of a word that exhibits this is the word: bus.

Spelling Patterns and Generalizations - When we understand this, it can helps us pronounce new words and even spell words that we have heard of before.

Variant Vowels - These are when a series of letters, regardless of their classification, exude a tone familiar to vowels.

Vowel Team Conventions - These are common groupings of letters that actually help us identify word families.

Writing Short Vowel Sounds - This is for when you first begin to work with a phonics unit that includes these tones.

What Are Vowels?


The English language is made up of the combination of vowels and consonant sound. A vowel, in the English language, is simply marked as a letter that does not make a consonant sound. A vowel sound is produced with an open vocal tract configuration. Even when the term vowel initially alluded to a sound type, it is now more commonly referred to in the form of the alphabetical letters. The English language consists of five letters that are referred to as vowels and all the other letters from the alphabetic set are called consonant letters.


What are The Five English Vowels?

The five English vowels are "a, e, i, o, u". There are a few other letters like y and h that make a vowel-like sound in some words. However, they are not generally treated as a part of the set of standard 5 vowels.


What Do These Vowels Do?

Vowel sounds and words are very important in the formation of the English vocabulary. Their importance is no less than that of the consonants. These vowel sounds or letters, when joined with the consonant sounds or letters, make a syllable of the words. Syllables are the part of words spoken with one stroke of the tongue and are very important in the formation of any language's vocabulary and have many other useful functions as well.


Are There Any Rules to Follow for The Vowels Use?

The use of words starting with a vowel sound requires one to care for one rule. The words starting with a vowel sound like apple, ice cream, owl, oval, oral, utterance, etc. and in any statement must be preceded by 'an'. Unlike the words that start with a consonant sounding letter, we cannot put a 'an' before such words because it is a mistake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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