Long Vowels CVCe: a, i

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Long Vowels CVCe a, i
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Long Vowels CVCe a, i

• pale
• What vowel do you hear?
• a
• take
• What vowel do you hear?
• a

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Long Vowels CVCe a, i

• late
• What vowel do you hear?
• a
• bite
• What vowel do you hear?
• i

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Long Vowels CVCe a, i

• like
• What vowel do you hear?
• i
• ripe
• What vowel do you hear?
• i

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Long Vowels CVCe a, i

• take
• The a has a long vowel sound and the e is silent.
  
• bite
• What is the vowel sound?
• i

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Long Vowels CVCe a, i

• blame
• What is the vowel sound?
• a
• chase
• What is the vowel sound?
• a

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Long Vowels CVCe a, i

• write
• What is the vowel sound?
• i
• smile
• What is the vowel sound?
• i

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Long Vowels CVCe a, i

• A word ending with silent e keeps its long vowel
  sounds when ing is added.
• write ing writing
• Notice that when the ing ending is added to a
  word with a vowel-consonant-e pattern, the final
  e is dropped.
• The spelling of the base word changes, but the
  vowel sound is still long.

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Long Vowels CVCe a, i

• bite ing biting
• blame ing blaming
• chase ing chasing
• smile ing smiling
• take ing taking

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Long Vowels CVCe a, i

• Read the following words
• flake
• biking
• raking
• skating
• sinking
• landing

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Long Vowels CVCe a, i

• Read the following sentences
• Pat was making a big kite.
• He kept smiling.

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Long Vowels CVCe a, i

• Read the following words
• shake
• size
• fade
• fading
• space
• spacing

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Long Vowels CVCe a, i

• Read the following sentence
• Jane wins prizes for diving and skating.

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Your Turn

• Turn your practice book to page 42.