Long And Short Vowel

Word sort and fluency practice.

Long And Short Vowel. There are five vowels in the english language. The length and the sound of a vowel can change according to its position in a word and the pronunciation of that word.

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If you stretch out an a as in cat, you don't get an a as in paper. The next worksheet is for long and short o sound. As you can see above, long vowels are not just longer.

Vowels are sounds in which the air stream moves up from the lungs and through the vocal tract very smoothly;

A vowel letter can also have short sounds. Listen carefully to the long and short vowel sounds in the following words. The definition is then followed by a review of a, e, i, o, u. How do we describe vowels?