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Learn all about long i and the six ways to spell the long i vowel sound: i, i-e, igh, y, y-e, and ie. You will also snag your own free printable list with 173 words with long i vowel sounds!

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All About Long i

Just as with all long vowels, the long vowel sound is the same as the letter name.

Long a says /ā/ like acorn.
Long e says /ē/ like equal.
Long i says /ī/ like ice.
Long o says /ō/ like ocean.
Long u says /yoo/ like unicorn, OR /oo/ like ruler.

I usually teach my students a little jingle to remember the sound long vowels make. We pound on the table and chant, “Long vowels say their names.” My students really respond positively to this, and it helps them to remember the sounds of long vowels!

Long i can be spelled 6 different ways: i, i-e, igh, y, y-e, and ie. All of these spelling patterns can result in the long i vowel sound. Examples include:

i like lion.
i-e like bike.
igh like light.
y like fly.
y_e like type.
ie like pie.

Long i Sound Words

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i – Open Syllable Words & Wild/Old Words

The letter i by itself will say its long sound when it is the last letter in a syllable. This is called an open syllable. Think about words like hi, li/on, and pi/lot. Since the syllables end in the single letter i, the vowel will make its long i sound.

👉 Exceptions: We also hear the long i sound in many common, but irregular closed syllable words that break the rules.

These ‘exceptions to the rule’ are one-syllable words that end in -ild, -ilt, -ind, and -ist. These are sometimes referred to as Wild, Old Words.

Words with open syllable and wild or old words with long i sound:

lion	kind	climb	hi	quiet	silent
I	find	blind	idea	science	bicycle
I’m	mind	mild	Friday	iron	Simon
I’ll	child	pilot	behind	giant	spider
I’ve	wild	item	finally	library	final
I’d	sign	trial	decide	China	tricycle

i-e (Long i with Silent E)

This pattern follows a VCe pattern and results in the letter i saying its name.

Use the sight word ‘like’ to teach this spelling pattern. Write it on the board and ask your students to read it. Because this word is usually one of the first sight words children learn, they should know it automatically.)

Follow this general script:

Teacher: Tap the sounds you hear in the word like. How many sounds do you hear?
Students: /l/ /ī/ /k/ = 3 sounds.
Teacher: But we see four letters! When we see i-consonant-e pattern in words, the i will say its long sound. That’s why ‘like’ has a long vowel sound in the middle. Without the letter e at the end, it would say ‘lick.’ Now imagine you raised your hand in class and said “I like my dog.” That magic e at the end is so important because, without it, my sentence would say “I lick my dog.” (Kids always get a hoot out of using this example in a sentence.)

Words with long i with silent e with long i sound:

bike	smile	bride	exercise	alive	likely
time	ride	five	sometime	arrive	provide
file	mine	lime	inside	describe	excitement
side	kite	slide	outside	combine	aside
like	hide	slime	surprise	realize	organize
pipe	bite	write	decide	alike	despite

igh – Vowel Team

Refer to this spelling pattern as “igh – 3 letter i. ” It’s a three-letter vowel team. This phonogram is totally irregular and cannot be sounded out.

We learned from The ABC’s and All Their Tricks that this spelling is actually a remnant of Old English and Old German, which is why it looks so strange to us!

Words with vowel team igh with long I sound:

light	fight	knight	flashlight	highest	moonlight
right	sight	fright	higher	lightning	upright
might	tight	Dwight	tonight	mighty	eyesight
night	sigh	twilight	fighting	highway	sightsee
high	slight	tighter	frighten	midnight	skylight
bright	flight	fortnight	sunlight	delight	tighten

y – Vowel

Remember told old saying: “A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y. ” Well, let’s teach our students the rules for when the letter y actually is considered a vowel. They can know for sure when that “sometimes” really occurs.

👉 Y is considered a vowel when it comes at the end of a syllable or word.
👉 When Y is at the end of a root word, it makes the long i sound.

Multisyllabic words where the vowel y makes the long I sound:

fly	dry	dying	drying	deny	nylon
by	myself	shy	satisfy	multiply	occupy
my	cry	reply	hydrogen	magnify	cyclone
why	sly	spy	butterfly	neaby	modify
try	lying	thy	classify	Wyoming	recycle
sky	July	defy	apply	cyclops	tyrant

y-e (Long Y with Silent E)

When y is in the middle of a word, it is also considered a vowel.

When a syllable follows a y-consonant-silent e pattern, the y makes the long i sound. Many of these words come from Greek, and the y makes the sound of i.

type	lyme	Bryce	style	analyze	genotype
hype	Clyde	byte	typewriter	archetype	freestyle
Kyle	hyde	thyme	paralyze	argylye	gigabyte
lyme	Lyle	tyke	enzyme	hairstyle	mistype

ie – Vowel Team

IE is a vowel team. When it comes at the end of a root, it makes the long vowel i sound.

There are only a handful of words that include this vowel team, so teaching these four words together as a word family may be a better approach than teaching and reviewing the vowel team.

pie

die

lie

tie

FAQ & Info

What are the best ways to teach long vowels?

Begin by solidifying the difference between long and short vowels. Use hands-on activities, manipulatives, and orthographic mapping activities. Vowel sorts are also great activities.

Should I teach all long vowel spellings at the same time?

You should not teach all long vowel patterns at the same time. Follow a scope and sequence that targets skills systematically to build a solid foundation.

Do I use all the words on the Long Vowel Word List?

Only choose words from the list that follow the phonics skills you’ve already taught. For example: When teaching the long y spelling for long i, do not use the word “city” with students if you haven’t already taught the soft sound of c says /s/.

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When we think about the alphabet we think of 5 vowels A, E, I, O, U. However, when it comes to pronunciation, there are many vowel sounds. In this video we will look at the vowel sounds from the International Alphabet.

Vowel Sounds

When we think about the alphabet we normally think of there being 5 vowels A, E, I, O, U. However, when it comes to pronunciation, there are many vowel sounds and these sounds can be spelt in different ways which can be a little inconsistent. This makes things difficult when learning English especially as in many other languages the vowels are pronounced more consistently with how they they are spelled. There are 12 sounds that we will be looking at in this video and they are the single vowels or monophthongs. The place of each symbol on the chart tells us something about how it is produced.

Remember!

Pronunciation is physical and as we go through these sounds you need to think about these three questions; Is your mouth open, closed or in the middle? What is the position of your tongue? What shape are your lips?

Examples of Vowel Sounds

For the vowel sounds on the top row the mouth is almost closed

/i:/, /ɪ/, /ʊ/ and /u:/

For the vowel sounds on the bottom row the mouth is almost wide open.

/æ/, /ʌ/, /ɑ:/ and /ɒ/

For the sounds on the left, our tongue is near the front teeth.

/i:/, /e/ and /æ/

When we get to the right, it has moved back a little bit.

/u:/, /ɔ:/ and /ɒ/

Lets look at some examples words for each vowel sound.

/i:/, as in “me”, “these”, “need” and “be”.
/ɪ/ as in “with”, “this”, “if” and “think”.
/ʊ/ as in “put”, “would”, “look”, and “woman”.
/u:/ as in “to”, “you”, “new” and “who”.

Do you see how the position on the chart relates to where the sound comes from?

On the second row the mouth is open a little more. Again the tongue should move back a little as we go through them from left to right.

/e/ as in “get”, “when”, “well” and “very”.
/ə/ as in “the”, “about”, “could” and “us”.
/ɜ:/ as in “her”, “work”, “learn”, and “word”.
/ɔ:/ as in “or”, “also”, “more”, and “call”.

Now lets look at the bottom row where our mouth should be almost wide open.

/æ/ as in “have”, “that”, “as”, and “can”.
/ʌ/ as in “but”, “up”, “one”, and “much”.
/ɑ:/ as in “start”, “ask”, “large” and “after”.
/ɒ/ as in “of”, “on”, “from” and “not”.

So that is all the single vowels. Obviously there are a lot more examples but the examples in this video are some of the most common words. The important thing to remember is that pronunciation is physical.

Well thanks for reading. I hope you found it useful.

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The correct pronunciation of words is one of the components of beautiful and literate speech. To achieve this, you will first have to study the sounds themselves. In this article, we will figure out together what vowel sounds are, how many vowels are in the alphabet of the Russian language, and what sounds they can represent.

What are vowels and sounds

Vowel sounds are those sounds that we freely convey with our voice. Hence their name comes from: voice means "voice". When pronouncing, air exits through the mouth and does not create noise, and the position of the tongue and lips determines which vowel sound we will pronounce.

There are much fewer vowels in Russian than consonants. There are 6 of them in total: [a], [o], [i], [s], [y] and [e]. To understand whether a vowel sound is in front of you or not, try to sing it. For example:

a-a-a ,

y-y-y

ss .

If it works, then the sound is a vowel. You can't do that with consonants.

There are more vowels than sounds - there are 10 of them: a, i, u, u, o, e, e, e, i, s . This difference is due to the fact that some of these letters can represent two sounds and are pronounced using a combination of a vowel and a consonant [y']. For example, in word spruce the letter e expresses two sounds - [y'] and [e]. Let's look at the table all the vowel sounds and the letters that represent them.

Letter

Sound

Example

a [a] pharmacy

i
[a]

[d'] + [a]

change

anchor

y [y] moon

[y]

[y'] + [y]

love

skirt

about
[o]

[a]

horse

milk

e
[e]

[y'] + [e]

[and]

victory

raccoon

great

and
[o]

[d'] + [o]

rope

hedgehog

e
[e]

evolution

and
[and]

[s]

caviar

life

s
[s]

choice

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How vowel sounds are related to syllables

Vowel sounds form syllables - sound segments of words that we pronounce with one breath. One syllable can be either a vowel with one or more consonants, or a vowel alone. There is even a rule by which syllables can be counted: how many vowels in a word - so many syllables. nine0003
For example, in the word journey there are 5 vowels: [u], [i], [e], [i] and [e]. This means that it has 5 syllables: p-te-she-stvi-e .

Test yourself!

Count the number of syllables in the words: try on, tanner, well-groomed, care, prefix, capital, wet, invitation, orange .

Vowel sounds and stress

Now let's see what groups vowel sounds are divided into. Sometimes their pronunciation depends on whether the stress falls on them, that is, whether we single them out with our voice. So vowel sounds are divided into stressed and unstressed. Here are some examples:

Sound Impact position Unstressed position

[and] large prize money

[a] chess spruce

[y] frog empty

Stress in Russian can fall on any of the existing vowel sounds. However, only 4 of them can be unstressed - these are [a], [i], [y] and [s]. In this position, we pronounce sounds weaker than under stress, because of which they can change qualities and sound differently.

Interestingly, the vowels [o] and [e] can only be stressed. There are only a couple of exceptions to this rule: for example, in words cocoa and canoe sounds [o] and [e] in an unstressed position.

How unstressed vowels are related to consonants

How an unstressed vowel sounds depends on the consonant that precedes it. Or rather, from its hardness or softness. If it is a hard consonant, it can be followed by unstressed vowels [y], [a] and [s]. When we talk about a soft consonant, it is followed by unstressed vowels [y] and [and].

After a hard consonant After a soft consonant

[l]howl p[r'i]kaz

[wa] yes [s'u] yes

[woo]lcan [v'i]trina

Test yourself

It's time to find out if you now understand well what vowel sounds are in Russian. To do this, we have prepared tasks for self-examination. nine0003
Task 1

List all the vowels in these words:

squeal,

fair,

rejoice,

doll,

distant,

buddy,

voting,

mirror,

story,

OK,

captivate.

Task 2

Name 5 words each in which the sounds [a], [i], [y] and [s] would be stressed.

Task 3

Name 5 words in which an unstressed vowel would come after a hard consonant, and 5 more words where it would follow a soft consonant.

Task 4

Count the number of syllables in the words below (don't forget to use the rule you learned at the beginning of the article!):

weightless,

sunrise,

adventure,

painter,

perpetuate,

pleasant,

image,

category,

exciting,

melting,

snowflake.

The rules of phonetics help us to speak correctly, so it is important to master the topic of vowels well and avoid gaps in knowledge. If even after reading the article you still have questions on the topic, you can figure them out in the Russian language course at Skysmart. In online lessons, the teacher will help the student work out the theory and consolidate the result on non-boring tasks. So the student will be able to improve the quality of knowledge, and fall in love with the subject. nine0003
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V. in Russian there are 10 vowels, 6 vowels. Vowels: a, i, e, e, o, u, s, e, u, i. Vowel sounds: [a], [o], [y], [e], [i], [s]. In the school curriculum, vowel sounds are indicated in the diagrams in red. In elementary grades, they explain: vowels are called so because they “voice”, they are pronounced “voiced”, while consonants got such a name because they “agree” with vowels. nine0003 Scheme 1. Vowels and vowel sounds of the Russian language.
Stressed and unstressed vowels

There are vowel sounds:
unstressed: in about yes [a], from y dak [y], l e juice [i].

It is correct to say "stressed syllable" and "unstressed syllable". Instead of "stress falls on a vowel" say "stress falls on a syllable with a vowel." However, in the literature there are formulations "stressed vowel" and "unstressed vowel". nine0003
Stressed vowels are in a strong position, they are pronounced with more force and intonation. Unstressed vowels are in a weak position, they are pronounced with less force and may be subject to change.

Note. The designation of the letter e in a weak position differs in different school programs. Above we showed the sound [and], in other school programs the designation [e] is found, in the institute program - [e ^and] (e with an overtone and).
Scheme 2. Division of vowels into stressed and unstressed. nine0002 In Russian there are compound words with primary and secondary stress. In them, with a strong intonation, we highlight the main stress, with a weak intonation - a secondary one. For example, in the word foam blocks, the main stress falls on the syllable with the letter o, the secondary stress on the syllable with the letter e. In phonetic analysis, the vowel with the main stress is stressed, the vowel with the secondary stress is unstressed. For example: tricuspid, three-year-old.

Iotated vowels

The letters i, u, e, ё are called iotated and mean two sounds in the following positions of the word:

at the beginning of the word: tree [y'olka], Yana [y'ana], raccoon [y'inot];

after a vowel: hare [zay'its], button accordion [bay'an];

after ь or ъ: streams [ruch'y'i], rise [fall'om].
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Letter	Sound	Example
a	[a]	pharmacy
i	[a] [d'] + [a]	change anchor
y	[y]	moon
	[y] [y'] + [y]	love skirt
about	[o] [a]	horse milk
e	[e] [y'] + [e] [and]	victory raccoon great
and	[o] [d'] + [o]	rope hedgehog
e	[e]	evolution
and	[and] [s]	caviar life
s	[s]	choice