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Teachers Activity links ____________________ Grammar advanced intermediate beginning ____________________ Reading abridged stories paraphrasing ____________________ Writing essay skills verb choice end focus ____________________ Web Design How To Center Images ____________________ more to come... ____________________ created and maintained by Douglas E. Adams		Teaching Vowel Sounds: Practice & Assessment Practice One At this point students should be beginning to have an understanding of how to pronounce and recognize the different short vowel sounds, and probably ready for some practice. This practice is similar to the one for long vowels and can be done individually or with a partner. Ask students to take out a piece of paper and number it from one to ten. Write the following words on the board, and ask each pair to identify the vowel sound they hear and write it on their paper. Pronounce each word individually pausing to give students a chance to confer with their partner after each one. net hop laugh love visit hook slept slap shed call You can walk around the room as you pronounce each word and monitor the students' progress. Go over the results together. *Note: Just as with the long vowels, when students are unsure in identifying and producing a specific vowel sound, I find it helpful to ask them to pronounce a representative word that they are sure of which contains that sound and compare it to the word they are struggling with. For this to be most effective, the representative word should be a single syllable and contain only voiceless or quiet consonants. These are consonants that don't make much noise when you pronounce them because your larynx doesn't vibrate. They include consonants like /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /sh/, and the /th/ as in path. [Examples can be found on the previous page.] Practice Two Write each of the six vowel sounds on the board. Ask each pair to write a word [or multiple words] containing that vowel sound after each vowel. go over the results together asking pairs to share their words and helping them correct any errors they have by asking them to compare the word to a representative word. Assessment Mastery of short vowels can be tested with a quiz that uses the same format as Practice One. I suggest choosing words with quiet consonants whenever possible.      for example: head, stock, dove, sick, half, cook,... . Back to... Short vowels lesson Up Next... Practicing long and short vowels together

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