Decoding Short vowels vs Long vowels Word Solving

foreign decoding short vowels versus long vowels when we are reading we decode or work to figure out what each word is when we come to word we don't know yet we say the sounds of the word and then put the sounds together to read the word but sometimes letters say more than one sound and that makes things little tricky bet you know the short vowels but let's review them real quick says like in apple we'll add symbol called brev to the top to show it's short says like in egg says it like in Igloo says like an octopus and you says like an umbrella but vowels make long sound too can also say like in cake We'll add symbol called macron to the top to show it's long can say like in tree can say like in bike can say like in home and you can say you like in mule vowels can say the schwa sound too but that's for another video so when we go to read word we don't know if the vowel is saying it's short sound or it's long sound is this head or heed is this chassis or chasing is this one thrall or Thor is this bread or breed so knowing the six syllable types will help you check out links to those videos below and there are some other Clues to help you know if vowel is short or long let's look at some of the clues word might have short vowel if it ends in double letters like in pass our vowel might be short if vowel is all by itself between consonants like here in Flash vowel also might be short if it ends in the vowel is probably short like in stack vowel might be short if it ends in double letters with at the end of the word like in rattle and vowel might be short if word ends in like in batch did you already know some of those Clues if you didn't or you're still learning no problem I'll show you what to do later in this video These Clues help you much of the time but of course there are always exceptions there are also some clues that tell us if vowel might be long vowel might be long if word ends in an like in came that can be magic and make the other vowels say its name vowel might be long if you see word with two vowels together the first vowel often says it's long sound or its name vowel might be long if word ends in one consonant and then Le there's good chance that that has long vowel and vowel might be long if you see vowel followed by or and often act as vowels where it's like two vowels together and that makes this word own now all these are just some of the clues and they're helpful but it's hard to remember all of them so as you are learning and remembering them it can help to try both vowel sounds when you come to word that you don't know let's practice this together let's look at this word what Clues do you see means the vowel is probably short so it would be at hatch looking for Clues here and I'm just not sure if that is supposed to be with the to make it and closed syllable or if the is supposed to be by itself as an open syllable since I'm not sure will try both sounds corn that didn't sound right let me try corn acorn do you see clue in this word that tells us if the first vowel is long or short there is an at the end but wait see double letters double letters usually mean short vowel pull Apple what clue do you see here see an and just no CK so it might be long but this just can't be sure of so I'm gonna try both sounds Baker what clue do you see for this first vowel after the there is th and an think the th should go with the first syllable with that so it's closed and that would make the vowel short so think it should be ass Fleet athlete looking for Clues here there's only an between the two vowels so can't be sure if the is short or long let me try both sounds sick no you sick music here I'm looking for Clues and I'm not really sure so let me try both vowel sounds for to see which sounds right cool thing cool thing clothing here see clue do you double letters double letters tell me the vowel is probably short ladder we'll end with this tough one it has two vowels it looks like the probably goes with the first making it closed and in short so Vol but I'm not sure if the is shorter long let's try it both ways Vol can no volcano volcano remember to look for clues in the spelling to see if vowel is long or short and if you're not sure try both vowel sounds and see which one is right knowing the six types of syllables helps lot too the better you get it to coding words the more fun reading is this