Long and short vowels

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Stopping the markers

by E.L. Summers

​What are the markers

​These are the letters that can make other letters change their sound.

• ​E

• ​I

• ​Sometimes Y

​Markers in Action

​We often use the letter E to make a vowel in the word "say its name"

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​This is the word rat. The a is short, it says the /a/ sound.

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​This is the word rate. The a is now long. Adding the e (the marker) means that we say the long sound of the previous vowel we saw in the word.

​Markers in Action

​The letter i can do the same thing as the e sometimes.

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​This is tap.

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​This is taping, like you are taping up a present.

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​The i that we added is now making the first a "say its name".

​Stopping the marker

​If we didn't want to write "taping" but meant to write the word that someone is making the "tap" sound over and over, then we have to stop the i from making the a say its name.

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​Instead of taping we would write tapping

​Stopping the marker

​There are different ways to stop the markers so they don't make other letters change what they say.

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​One way do do this is by doubling consonants. Remember that consonants are all the letters that are not vowels.

Multiple Choice

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• sit

• sits

• sitting

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• sits

• sites

• sittz

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• sitting

• siting

• sittng

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• ship

• shipp

• shep

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• shipped

• shiped

• shepping

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• shipping

• shiping

• shippeing

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• swim

• swimm

• swem

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• swimming

• swiming

• sweming

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• taps

• tapz

• tapps

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• tapped

• taped

• tappt

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• tapping

• tapeing

• taping

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• traps

• trapps

• trapz

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• trapping

• traping

• trapeing

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• trapped

• traped

• trapd

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• steps

• stepps

• stepz

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• stepping

• steping

• steppng