Long Vowels

Topic: long vowels

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will be able to recognize the difference between a short vowel and a long vowel and write the long vowels in words.

Materials

• Pencils
• Paper
• List of words with long vowels (can be provided by the teacher or generated by the students by scanning the text they are reading)

Warm-up

• Write the following words on the board: cat, hat, beg, bag, mat
• Ask the students to read the words aloud, but this time, stretch out the vowel sound in each word (cat________, hat________, beg________, bag________, mat________)
• Ask the students if they notice any difference in how they pronounce the words this time compared to before.