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Teaching Vowel Sounds: Practice & Assessment
Long & Short Vowels Practice
This practice is similar to the ones for 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.
- sled
- slip
- slap
- slope
- sloop
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- sleep
- sloth
- slave
- slime
- shook
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- You can walk around the room as you pronounce each word and monitor the students' progress.
- Go over the results together.
*Note: Ask students to compare any word they're unsure of with a representative word that they are certain of which contains that sound.
Mixed Practice Two
- Write a list of multi-syllable words on the board and ask students to divide the words into syllables and identify the vowel sounds.
- create
- deny
- postpone
- pencil
- reminder
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- umbrella
- children
- critical
- precognitive
- optimization
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- You can walk around the room as you pronounce each word and monitor the students' progress.
- 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.
Vowels in their name
A short, but fun practice is to ask students to identify the vowels in their names. This also has the added benefit of helping the teacher know how to correctly pronounce their students' names.
Vowel Bingo
Another activity you can use to practice vowel sounds is vowel bingo.
- Make small slips of paper with individual long and short vowel sounds written on them.
- Make a set of bingo boards like the ones found here:
board a ,
board b ,
board c ,
board d ,
board e ,
board f ,
board g ,
- select the slips of paper from a cup, bowl, hat..., and call out the vowel sound. For lower level groups you can also give a sample word containing the sound.
- The first person/pair/team to complete a row shouts "Bingo" and must pronounce the sounds back to you to be crowned the winner.
- This can go on for several rounds, and you can incentivize the players by giving the winners an extra point on the next vowel quiz.
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