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LONG VOWEL “e”. Listen carefully, long vowel “ e ” sounds like this: “ e ”. Words with long vowel “ e ” can be spelled in a variety of ways. EXAMPLES:. 1 .- e: w e h e. 2.- ee: b ee s ee. 3.- ea: j ea ns t ea m. 4.- ie: p ie ce sh ie ld .
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Listen carefully, long vowel “e” sounds like this: “e” Words with long vowel “e” can be spelled in a variety of ways. EXAMPLES: 1.- e: we he 2.- ee: bee see 3.- ea: jeans team 4.- ie: piece shield 5.- y: Billy candy
Read and listen carefully to the following words. They all have the long sound of vowel “e”. Repeat them after me (loudly and slowly). Ready? shield happy mean Candy we keep tree teacher party piece
Next, let's review the short sound of “e”. Do you remember what short “e” sounds like? It sounds like this: “e” as in bed, let, sled. Let's practice. Get a pen and a piece of paper. Write numbers 1 to 10 in one column. Listen to the words, repeat them and on the piece of paper, write “s” for short or “l” for long.
1. bed 2. meet 3. read 4. met 5. kept 6. busy 7. teeth 8. me 9. cream 10. slept
The answers are: 1. bed short 2. meet long 3. read long 4. met short 5. kept short 6. busy long 7. teeth long 8. me long 9. cream long 10. slept short