It is, for this reason, I don’t teach the adage “When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking.” This rule is not consistent enough to be useful and can be confusing to struggling readers. However, vowel team can also say the short e sound as in the word ‘feather’ or it can also represent the long A sound in a few words. Most struggling spellers want to represent the long e sound with a single but a single at the end of a base word is usually a silent e.įor vowel team EA the long e sound as in ‘eat’ is the most common sound. One rule you can share in the classroom is that when you come across a one-syllable word with the long e sound at its end, most likely this will be spelled as vowel team ‘EE’. The long e sound can be spelled using both vowel team EE and vowel team EA. In this particular context, this letter combination is usually found in the middle of a base word – such as eve or athlete – and these can help equip learners with confidence when tackling syllables like ‘e consonant e’ Silent e SyllableĮven though the e consonant e spelling pattern may not be as widespread, it’s still an important phonics pattern for students to grasp. Think ‘we’, ’emit’ or ‘meter’!ĭepending on the word, you may also see it written as vowel team EA (like in tea), or even Vowel Team EE (for example freeze). Knowing how to recognize the long e sound and its various spellings is an essential skill for students! The most common spelling of a long e at the end of an open syllable is just the letter. Have students highlight the different representations of the long e sound in example words and then use those examples in sentences. Many of the long e words contain vowel teams but they are spelled other ways as well, so we should go over open syllable and silent e syllable as well as the vowel team syllable. e – me *open syllable long e words the most common spelling.
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