MORE ABOUT SPELLING WHEN TWO VOWELS GO WALKING, THE FIRST ONE DOES THE TALKING. :-) Heres a rhyme to help you remember another way of spelling long vowel sounds. When spelling words like neat and boat, you can go over the when-two-vowels-go-walking-the-first-one-does-the-talking rhyme. Most long-e sounds fit the two vowels rule. Long e is spelled either with ee, like in meet, seed, and weed, or ea, like in team, seat, and bead. The two vowels come side by side, but the first is the one that makes its long sound. A long-o sound is also often spelled with two vowels. The long o is spelled with oa like in boat, coat, and loan. A long-a sound can be spelled with side-by-side vowels, too. In words like pain and rain, you spell the long-a sound with ai. See how the two vowels come together?
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 06:45:41 +0000
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