How To Teach Long Vowel Teams
Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds. Today I wanted to stop by and share some strategies for teaching vowel teams and diphthongs in our classroom.
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This week we want to talk about how we teach the eeey vowel teams.

How to teach long vowel teams. They may also write a Key Word or draw a picture to go with each vowel team placed on the chart. We use ai in the middle of the word think rain pail train mail and ay at the end of the word play stay day May. Its always challenging to teach spelling patterns that arent easily decodable.
Practice both vowel teams. While we make our class chart the students make their own chart to take home. Here are links to each sec.
This week we are introducing our first vowel teams EA and EE. If the long a sound is at the beginning or middle of the word or syllable consider ai and a-e. Incorporating sorting can make this interactive and will be more engaging for students than just telling them.
In Grade 1 English Language Arts Standards Reading. Practice the vowel teams with motivating activities. Placing lessons on spelling rules or suffixes or even r controlled vowels in between some of the vowel teams is wise.
We usually use ee in the middle of the word think green teen sneeze and ey at the end of the word key monkey trolley kidney. Rather than introducing both ai and ay together start with ai. Phonics vowel teams can be tricky for students to grasp in reading and spelling.
With our ai vowel team there are several words that have a Magic E homophone. Understanding the position of a vowel team within a word can help students. To help our students remember this rule we use the key phrase Play in the Rain.
Learn phonics rules for making long vowel sounds with fun songs. Where students might get stuck with the long A sound. If you use the LiPS program you can also have them place LiPS mouth-pictures next to the sounds on the chart for reference.
If the long a sound is at the end of the word or syllable use AY. A-E is more common but a general prompt to use vowel teams can allow students to apply this spelling generalization and practice independently. Modeling is an effective way to introduce these long vowel teams.
Phonics skills help boost reading skills. Teaching Vowel Teams and Diphthongs. Both ee and ey say the long E sound.
Teach and add the relevant sounds ie ai ay oa ow oe ea ee ey ui ue from the Big Sounds Pack to daily practice. Interactive anchor charts are a good tool for the job. Then latter in 2 weeks with long vowel s in between teach the same vowel sounde with the spelling patterns ie y and ey.
There is no right or wrong order to teach the vowel teams but I think it is helpful to start with the more common vowel teams and the vowel. Regular Vowel Teams AE and the Pyramid Teach Along the Way. Foundational Skills Phonics and Word Recognition CCSSELA-LITERACYRF13.
That way you can involve students by having them come up and put a. You can have the student make their own personal chart by gluing down the vowel teams onto the chart for their own reference. Fun ways to Teach Vowel Teams Using posters to introduce your vowel team.
To help our students remember this rule we use the keywords green and key. Growing up I remember the rhymes when 2 vowels go walking the 1st one does the talking and I before E. This program teaches the long vowel sounds in isolation like this week we are focusing on long e and the spelling patterns for it ee ea e and e_e.
I like to start my creating an anchor chart with my students.
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