Read a vowel team

Supplied materials

• Paper and pencil, or a browser text area. All named people/events/records are fictional learning inputs.
• Worked case: Target: ship. Blend: stop. Final-e: cape. Team: rain.
• Primary check: Target: chip. Blend: blue. Final-e: bike. Team: feet.
• An adult may read every direction and answer choice aloud; learners may respond by speaking, pointing or drawing.
• Additional fully supplied decoding bank: short vowels—cat, bed, sit, hot, cup; blends—stop, black, grin, trip, flag, drum; digraphs—ship, chip, thin, when; final-e—cape, bike, home, cube; long-vowel teams—rain, play, feet, eat, boat, snow. In snow, ow represents long o; in cow it has a different sound. Choose one small pattern group, underline its pattern, read each word, and contrast one changed word such as cap/cape.

Learn the idea

Two adjacent vowel letters can work together. In rain, feet, boat and play, the highlighted teams represent one long-vowel sound.

Underline the team, read its sound in the supplied word and blend with the surrounding consonants.

Example to read or listen to: Target: ship. Blend: stop. Final-e: cape. Team: rain. The answer is ai. The relevant input states: Team: rain. This fits ai. Two adjacent vowel letters can work together. In rain, feet, boat and play, the highlighted teams represent one long-vowel sound. English teams can have other sounds in other words.

1. Read or listen to the worked example. Say what the reading or writing task asks you to find. An adult can help with unfamiliar words.
2. Underline the team, read its sound in the supplied word and blend with the surrounding consonants.
3. Check the worked solution: ai. The relevant input states: Team: rain. This fits ai. Two adjacent vowel letters can work together. In rain, feet, boat and play, the highlighted teams represent one long-vowel sound. English teams can have other sounds in other words.
4. Try the question and the practice questions. Point to the words that helped you choose before checking the feedback.

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Take it further

Optional extra practice: Read this original sentence with adult support: The sheep sees rain from the boat. Label or underline sh and th, circle ee, ai and oa, and explain that those teams each make one sound in these words. Write a new sentence using bike and tree. Practice this lesson’s skill as you complete the task. Use this idea to check your work: Two adjacent vowel letters can work together. In rain, feet, boat and play, the highlighted teams represent one long-vowel sound.

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