Recognise Long Vowel Phonemes

Say these five vowels out loud as you read them:

a  e  i  o  u

Now, listen to the these sounds (phonemes). They sound like the letters you have just read out loud, but they look very different:

ai		sounds like the vowel called letter a
ee		sounds like the vowel called letter e
igh		sounds like the vowel called letter i
oa		sounds like the vowel called letter o
oo		sounds like the vowel called letter u

These sounds (phonemes) are called long vowel sounds.

A long vowel phoneme is a sound which is the same as, or very similar to the letter name of one of the vowels.

Now, listen to the words in this activity.

Try and work out which of the long vowel phonemes they contain and the letters (graphemes) that make those sounds.