Why Do Vowels Make Different Sounds?

by Ellen Williams

Reading and spelling both require an understanding of basic phonetic rules. Ellen Williams, Ed.D. creates a simple story to teach short and long vowel sounds and how the vowels are impacted by a silent E at the end of a word. This book is written to be a read-along story- where the reader makes the sounds and children say them back as the story progresses. Each vowel "says its name" when it has the long sound. When it has a consonant on the right, the vowel makes a short sound. Dr. Williams told this story to children in grades K-3 as a classroom teacher and knows it can help a beginning reader experience success in reading words that follow a spelling rule.

25 pages, Paperback

Published October 15, 2018