Tag Archives: vowels
Vowel sounds: Is the letter y a vowel? Posted by Gabriele on Oct 13, 2012
If you ask an elementary school child who speaks English to tell you the vowels they will likely say “a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.” This is what I was taught about vowels as a child, it is what I have taught my ESL students, and it is still what children who are…
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter u Posted by Gabriele on Oct 12, 2012
To continue our look at vowel sounds, today we will investigate the letter ‘u.’ I wanted to learn more about this letter to share with you and so I turned to Wikipedia for some help and found some very interesting information about how the vowel ‘u’ and consent ‘v’ were once connected. Apparently during late…
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter o Posted by Gabriele on Oct 9, 2012
To continue our look at vowel sounds, today we will investigate the letter ‘o’. What is there to say about this letter. Well it is the fifteenth letter of the alphabet and along with the capital letter H, I, and X, the letter O is one of the few letters that look the same if…
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter i Posted by Gabriele on Oct 5, 2012
The next letter in this series looking at vowel sounds in English is the letter ‘i’. This is an interesting vowel because it is one of the only letters of the English alphabet that is a word in itself, as in the word for the first person pronoun in English ‘I’. The only other letter…
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter e Posted by Gabriele on Oct 2, 2012
Today we continue our look at the different vowel sounds in English by focusing on the letter ‘e.’ Before honing in on the short and long vowel sounds of the letter ‘e’ I want to introduce to you the concept of the silent ‘e’ in English. There are many words in English that end in…
Vowel sounds: Looking at the letter a Posted by Gabriele on Sep 28, 2012
Today I am going to begin a series of posts looking at different vowel sounds. Since the letter ‘a’ is the first letter of the alphabet it makes the most sense to begin with this letter. Before we begin, it is important to remember that all vowels in English make two different types of sounds…