Phonics: Lesson 1 - Identifying Words with Variant Vowels

Introduction

Today, you will read and spell words with variant vowels.

Visual

We are going to learn about variant vowels.

Variant vowels are defined as the group of letters that produce the same vowel sounds. Let’s look at some examples.
Look at the words below. Each word has the long sound of oo as in spoon or the short sound of oo as in brook.
The patterns ew and ue have the long sound of oo, and the spelling patterns ould and ull contain the short sound of oo.
The oo spelling can stand for two different sounds.

spoon, brook, flew, could, full

Task

In Your Notebook: Draw a four-column chart. Write Long oo and Short oo in the top columns on the chart.

Interactive

Directions: Read each word. Sort the word under the correct category. After completing the sort, please copy this sort into your phonics/word study journal.

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