Free Short and Long Vowels Worksheets and Flashcards
Learning short and long vowels is very helpful for early learning and understanding difference between short and long vowel sound is very crucial for developing reading and spelling skill. Using our free short and long vowel worksheets and flashcards children can master vowel sounds, leading to improved reading, spelling, and writing skills.
Short Vowels: Short vowel sounds occur when a vowel is followed by a consonant and the vowel does not say its name.
- Short ‘a’: /æ/ as in cat, bat, hat
- Short ‘e’: /ɛ/ as in bed, red, pen
- Short ‘i’: /ɪ/ as in sit, hit, pin
- Short ‘o’: /ɒ/ or /ɑ/ as in pot, not, top
- Short ‘u’: /ʌ/ as in cup, hut, sun
Long Vowels: Long vowel sounds occur when the vowel says its name.
- Long ‘a’: /eɪ/ as in cake, game, name (silent ‘e’) or rain, pain (vowel pair)
- Long ‘e’: /iː/ as in see, tree, be (open syllable) or feet, meet (vowel pair)
- Long ‘i’: /aɪ/ as in kite, time, line (silent ‘e’) or pie, tie (vowel pair)
- Long ‘o’: /oʊ/ as in bone, home, note (silent ‘e’) or boat, coat (vowel pair)
- Long ‘u’: /juː/ or /uː/ as in cube, mule, flute (silent ‘e’) or blue, true (vowel pair)
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