Basic Speller - Lesson 18 - Practice with Long and Short <{a}> and <e>
Lesson Eighteen
Practice with Long and Short and <e>
1. Draw a line under each of the sounds below, and draw a double line under each of the letters:
2. When we talk about __________, we put them in square brackets.
3. When we talk about __________, we put them in pointed brackets.
4. When we talk about short vowel sounds, we just put them in square brackets. So the short sound is written [a]. And the short <e> sound is written [e].
5. But when we talk about long vowel sounds, we put them in square brackets and then put a dash over them. The dash that goes over long vowels is called a macron. So the long sound is written [ā]. And the long <e> sound is written [ē].
6. Is the short sound in at written [a] or [ā]? _______
Is the long sound in ate written [a] or [ā]? _______
Is the short <e> sound in them written [e] or [ē]? _______
Is the long <e> sound in theme written [e] or [ē]? _______
7. Listen carefully for long and short vowel sounds in these words. Then sort the words into the groups below:
| short , [a] | long , [ā] | short <e>, [e] | long <e>, [ē] |
8. Write two other words that contain [a]: _______ and _______
9. Write two other words that contain [ā]: _______ and _______
10. Write two other words that contain [e]: _______ and _______
11. Write two other words that contain [ē]: _______ and _______
Word Pyramids. The following Pyramids are made up of words that contain [a], [ā], [e], or [ē]:
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