Vowel Teams

What is a vowel team?

• When you see two vowels together or a vowel together with some consonants and they make one sound

• When you put two consonants together and they make a new sound like ch

• When you decode or sound out a word that has two vowels together making one sound

• A team of vowels that like to play sports like baseball or football

Which of the following is not an example of a vowel team?

• ee

• igh

• oo

• sh

Let's talk about the long a vowel teams. Select ALL of the answers below that contain vowel teams that make the long a sound.

• play

• bait

• eat

• true

Now we'll focus on the vowel team that we hear in the word saw. Please choose ALL words below that share the same sound as you hear in the aw vowel team that you hear in the word saw.

• always

• Claus (as in Santa)

• crawfish

• air

Let's consider vowel teams ow and ou. Select ALL correct statements about the vowel teams ow and ou:

• They both have the letter o

• They can make the same sound

• They both make a long o sound

• They both make a sound you might make if you get hurt

What do the words in my following word list have in common?

cow, now, allow, town, show, know, grow, below, shower

• They all have the same vowel team sound

• They all make the same sound you might make if you get hurt (ow!)

• They all have an 'ow' in them

• They are all rhyming words

What do the following words have in common?

seat, meet, feet, wheat, treat, happy, tricky, funny

• They all have a long e sound somewhere in the word

• They all have the same vowel team

• They are spelled the same

• They are all making the same vowel team sound as you hear in book

Generate and write four more words that belong in my list below:

oil, spoil, boy, oyster, noise, annoy, loyal, point

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CCSS.L.3.2E

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Please finish my sentence. The water is starting to...

• boil.

• boyul.

• buoyl.

• byal.

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CCSS.L.3.1E

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Below I have words that contain the same 'oo' vowel team. However sometimes this vowel team makes one sound and sometimes it makes another sound. I will make a pattern using the two different sounds:

book/moon

roof/shoot

hook/tooth

stood/zoo

Can you add to my pattern?