Unit 3 Week 4: Spelling: Spelling Vowel Teams oo, ew, ue, ui, eu

​Vowel Teams

​Vowel Teams oo, ew, ue, ui, eu are letter combinations that spell one sound. these vowel teams spell the vowel sound in tool or the vowel sound in cue.

​Learning Goal: I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.

​Vowel Teams

​Vowel Sound in Tool	​​ Vowel Sound in Cue
​ stool fruit	​ few
stew sleuth	hue​
clue	​

Match

Match the following

• oo

• ew

• ui

• eu

• ue

balloon

newest

suitable

feud

statue

• balloon

• newest

• suitable

• feud

• statue

​Say tube and cube. Notice how u in tube makes more of an /oo/ sound while in cube it sounds more like /y/ /oo/. Those are two different long u sounds.

​Now let’s go over the different ways to

spell these sounds.

2 sounds of long u

​ /y/ /oo/

(sounds like yoo)

ue - rescue

eu - Europe

ew - mew (end of a base word)

​ /oo/

​ue - blue

ui - suit

ew - chew (end of a base word)

oo - food (middle of a base word)

Multiple Choice

Choose the word that is spelled correctly:

• rescue

• rescoo

• reskue

Multiple Choice

Choose the word that is spelled correctly:

• Ewrope

• Europe

• Eorup

Multiple Choice

Choose the word that is spelled correctly:

• meeu

• mooue

• mew

Multiple Select

Choose the words that have the /y/+ /oo/ sound (yoo):

• recue

• feud

• issue

• cool

​EU Vowel Team

Long u spelled eu is pretty rare. Examples include feud and Europe. This one always makes the /yoo/ sound.