Long Vowel Sounds
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Description
The Long Vowel Sounds word sets include spellings with final e as well as vowel digraphs.
Words with long A, I, and O that use the final e pattern (as in: make, bite, rope) appear in their own card sets. For additional practice with final e, try the Final E Word Pairs set.
Examples of long vowel sounds spelled with vowel digraphs (ay, ai, ee, ea, ie, igh, oa and ow) appear in separate sets of cards.
I find the long u sound the most confusing. Remember, long vowels say their name. So long u says “you” not “oo” as in “blue”. You’ll find word cards with the short and long “oo” sounds in the More Vowel Sounds post.
Sets are colour coded by border colour. If a vowel sound has two sets, both have the same colour border.
Word list for the Long A Set 1 card set.
36 cards.
3-, 4-, and 5- letter words containing long a spelled with final e.
Includes some initial consonant blends and consonant digraphs.
Words
A_E, ace, age, ape, ate, bake, cave, cage, dare, date, fake, gaze, hate, Jake, Kate, lace, make, Nate, pale, race, safe, take, vane, wake, Yale, grape, flame, frame, place, plate, quake, scare, share, shake, snake, whale
Word list for the Long A Set 2 card set.
24 cards.
Words containing the long a sound spelled AI and AY. Includes a couple 2-syllable words as well as some consonant blends and consonant digraphs.
Words
AI, fair, hair, hail, jail, mail, rain, tail, wait, brain, chair, chain, paint, Spain, trail, AY, day, May, pay, say, way, clay, play, stay, tray, crayon, Sunday
Word list for the Long E card set.
45 cards.
Words containing long e sound spelled E_E (final e), EE and EA. Includes some initial consonant blends and digraphs.
Words
E_E, Eve, here, Pete, scene, Swede, Steve, EE, bee, eel, pee, see, beep, deep, deer, keep, feel, feet, free, jeep, week, bleed, cheek, green, queen, sheep, speed, street, EA, ear, eat, pea, sea, tea, beak, heat, leaf, peak, seat, team, beach, cheap, clean, steam, teach
Word list for the Long I Set 1 card set.
27 cards.
3-, 4-, and 5- letter words containing long i spelled with final e.
Includes some initial consonant blends and digraphs.
Words
I_E, ice, bike, bite, dice, fine, hike, kite, like, Mike, nice, pile, ride, side, time, vine, wine, bride, chime, glide, guide, pride, prize, quite, smile, white, while
Word list for the Long I Set 2 card set.
27 cards.
3-, 4-, and 5- letter words containing long i spelled with IGH and IE.
Words
IE, die, lie, pie, tie, IGH, high, sigh, fight, night, light, right, sight, tight, bright, Y, by, my, cry, dry, fry, try, shy, sky, spy, why, July
Word list for the Long O Set 1 card set.
18 cards.
4- and 5-letter words containing long o spelled with final e.
Includes some initial consonant blends and digraphs.
Words
O_E, bone, bore, cone, dome, joke, lone, more, poke, rope, sore, tone, woke, phone, choke, drone, quote, smoke
Word list for the Long O Set 2 card set.
26 cards.
Words containing long o spelled with OA and OW.
Includes some initial consonant blends, digraphs, and a few 2-syllable words.
NOTE: Check the "More Vowel Sounds" page for OW words that rhyme with 'cow'.
Words
OA, oak, boat, coat, loaf, soap, toad, coach, cloak, croak, float, throat, OW, low, mow, row, bowl, blow, crow, flow, grow, show, snow, elbow, pillow, window
Word list for the Long U card set.
20 cards.
Words containing long u spelled with U_E (final e), UE, and EW. Includes a few 2-syllable words.
NOTE: Check the "More Vowel Sounds" page for long and short OO sounds.
Words
U_E, use, cube, cute, fume, huge, mule, mute, excuse, UE, argue, cue, fuel, rescue, value, EW, few, mew, pew, skew
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Mary Hardy –
Fabulous! Excellent for teaching spelling patterns. Thank you.
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Vivianna Millstein –
These flash cards are very helpful for my ENL students
Karen –
Glad to hear that!
Tracee Thomas –
Thank you so much for these cards. They are wonderful! Do you have adverbs?
Karen –
You’re welcome! Sorry, I don’t have adverbs yet but I’ll put it on the list. 🙂
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yu ai liu –
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Ayvin –
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Linda Page –
These cards are great! I use them each week with my systematic and explicit phonics program. Thank you!
Karen –
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Jessica Chattopadhyay –
Wow I love that it is so much easier now to help my boy know what he needs to know. Thank you
Karen –
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Dhvanika Tanna –
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leng –
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RUTH ODOM –
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Jyo –
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Yura Graterol –
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s.senthilkumar –
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Catherine Mundstock –
They are very nice, but I like to use sets that are one discreet skill, such as igh (not i_e or not with any r-controlled spellings). If you removed the r-controlled spellings, that would make them much better.
Karen –
Thank you for the feedback. Sorry though, I’m not sure I know what you mean… 😕 The r-controlled vowels are in a separate set.
Stacie –
I use these lists and cards with my 3rd grade students daily. Thank you so much for putting these together.
Wenyi Du –
Very useful!