Long short a words

Short and Long A Vowel Sound Words List

We have 26 alphabets in English Grammar out of which 5 are vowels (a,e,i,o,u) and rest 21 are consonants. Pronunciation of every vowel is different from the other which gives rise to different types of sounds wherever they are used.

Today we are going to discuss about vowel ‘a’ and learn different sounds it produces whenever it is used in a word.

One of the first encounters for a student is this concept of long and short vowel sounds, such as ‘a’. Short a, written phonetically as /æ/, makes the vowel sound of a, as in cap, tap, fat and bat.

Following ESL phonics extensive list introduces students to “short a” and “long a” sound words.

Carefully go through the words given in above table and try to pronounce them. You’ll observe a pattern that we don’t have to stress on the vowel ‘a’ therefore we hear a soft ‘a’ sound.

Notice all three-letter words and vowel ‘a’ which is used between two consonants, these types of words are called CVC words.

Now Let us move to the long ‘a’ vowel words section where you would have to stress the vowel ‘a’ to pronounce the words correctly.

The long /a/ sound is pronounced like the word ‘Alien’. It is quite similar to sound what you hear in words like “Acorn” or “Apron.”

There are four ways of spelling Long ‘a’ sounds:

1. Using Letter A: You can spell the long /a/ sound with just the letter a.

2. Using Split Digraph A _ E : These words spell the long /a/ sound using a split digraph a_e where a is in the middle of the word and an e at the end of the word.

3. AI and AY Words: The long /a/ sound is spelled with the letters ai and ay, at the end of some words.

4. Using EI Words: The long /a/ sound is spelled with the letters ei usually at the middle of the word.

Notice that whenever you pronounce these words you’ll hear a sharp ‘a’ sound that is why they are called Long ‘a’ vowel words.

We hope you have found this post useful for your child. Practice sounding out these words to help your child build his/her phonics skills.

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Short and Long 'A' Sounds | 4th Grade Spelling

A long vowel sounds like when you sing it in the alphabet. 

When you sing the alphabet, the first letter you sing is a long 'a'. Try singing it in your head.

The 'a' in tape is a long 'a'.  

Short vowels sound different from long vowels. The 'a' in tap is a short 'a'.

In this lesson, let's learn to spell short and long 'a' sounds. 🤗

Short 'a' Sound

Here are a few short 'a' words:

hat

and

fact

apple

activity

exactly

relative

Here are some words with the long 'a' sound:

change

nation

major

table

inflation

Sometimes the letters 'a + consonant + e' make the long 'a' sound (and a silent 'e' 🙊). ✅ 

mate

phase

space

engaged

Sometimes the letters 'ai' make the long 'a' sound. ✅

strain

failure

remain

training

Sometimes the letters 'ay' make the long 'a' sound. ✅

play

essay

hallway

birthday

Sometimes the letters 'ei' make the long 'a' sound too. ✅ 

weight

sleigh

vein

The letters 'ea' can also make the long 'a' sound. ✅

break

great

Great job learning about long and short 'a' words.

Now, finish the practice to master these words. 😎

Synopsis of a speech therapy lesson in the senior group "Long and short words"

1. To acquaint with the concept of the Word-object, and its designation with a strip.

2. Learn to distinguish by ear words by the duration of their sound.

3. To form the ability to determine the length of a word, change the length of a word in accordance with the learning task.

4. Introduce the conditional-graphic scheme of the word. nine0005

Equipment: long and short strips, subject pictures, red and green chips.

Course of the lesson

Organizational moment

- Stand in a row and say who is at the beginning, who is at the end, who is in the middle.

- What did we play with last lesson?

- That's right, we played with sounds. Sounds live in words. When we name an object, we pronounce the word.

Exercise "Object and word".

- Look right, left, up, down, forward, backward. We are surrounded by various objects: a window, curtains, a board, etc. (show).

- And now you name the objects around you. (children call).

Conclusion: When we name an object, we pronounce the word.

Exercise “Who is this? What is it?".

- You can ask about every item. Listen as I ask about items and answer in one word. nine0005

The speech therapist points to a table (chair, wardrobe, etc.) and asks: “What is this?”

- What subjects did I ask about? (About non-living things.)

- How did I ask about these non-living objects? (“What is this?”)

- Listen as I ask about living things. Answer with one word: "Who is this?" (girl, boy, bunny, person).

- How did I ask about living things? (“Who is this?”)

Conclusion : about the living we ask “who is this?”, about the non-living - “what is this?”. nine0005

We will designate living words-objects with a symbol (little man), inanimate - (square).

Physical education minute. Game "Alive - run , inanimate - freeze."

Children run scattered around the group, and the speech therapist names objects: living - children continue to run, inanimate - stop: house, person, car, wolf, child, road, book, teacher, children, notebook, pencil ...

Exercise "Count words". nine0022

- You have strips on your tables. We will denote the word with a strip. It is necessary to lay out as many strips on the table (horizontally) as there are words. Listen and count how many words I will say:

- Machine. How many words did I say?

- Window, book. How many words did I say? What is the first (second) word?

- Board, clock, door. How many words did I say?

- What is the first (second, third) word?

The concept of long and short words. nine0022

- The words we pronounce are long and short.

- Do you know how we can tell if a word is long or short? You can measure the word with your hands. When we begin to say a word, spread our arms to the sides. When the word is over, stop. Get your hands ready. The machine. Is it a long or short word? (long)

- Why is it long? (hands managed to spread far)

- We denote a short word with a short strip, and a long one with a long one.

Take the strips, and if you hear a long word, then pick up the long one, and if you hear a short word, pick up the short one. nine0005

Words: house, mushroom, houses, houses, milk, Pinocchio, Cheburashka.

True or False Game

The speech therapist gives the children two tokens (red and green) and offers a game: if the children hear the correct name of what is shown in the picture, they must raise the green one, if the wrong name is red. Then he exposes a picture on which, for example, a banana is drawn and loudly, clearly pronounces the sound combinations PANAN, BAMAN, PAMAN, BANAN, BAMAM, etc. Children raise the corresponding circles. The speech therapist monitors the correct reaction of children. nine0005

Total

- What did you learn in class?

- How can a word be measured?

- Which task did you like?

- What was difficult to do?

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Artistic style of speech

1. Long

Compiled by: teacher-speech therapist MBU DO
Murmansk PPMS-Center
Strelkova Irina Sergeevna

2. Let's go to the land of words!

An exciting adventure awaits us today! We are going to the land of words!
But how can we get there?
Transport will help us with this!
Over the mountains and forests we can fly on . .. (airplane)
Look at the plane in the sky (hands to the sides, tilts to the right and left),
And in the plane that is the pilot (fold the "glasses" with your fingers, look through them)
And flies between the clouds (arms to the sides, tilts to the right and left)
Under the plane, then a mountain (fold the peak of the mountain /\ with your palms),
Now a dense forest, then a hole (cover your face with your palms, spread your fingers, then
make a circle with your hands in front of face),
Then the people marvel at the sky (alternately we put our palms to the forehead, making
turns to the sides),
Then the hares lead a round dance (hold hands, walk in a circle)

3. U----------- U------------U U-U------------U-U----------U-U U-U-U --------U-U-U--------U-U-U

(rhythmically reproduce onomatopoeia)
U-----------U---- --------U
U-U------------U-U----------U-U
U-U--- -----U-U-U--------U-U-U

4. Such different words!

The word is a house for sounds. There are words small - short, few lives in them
sounds: whale, cat, ball (show by the distance between the palms: [ ]). And there are big,
long words in which many different sounds live: dog, hippopotamus (distance between
palms: [
]).

5. How do you know if a word is long or short?

We will measure them! But the ruler will not suit us!
Words can be measured in different ways:
1. Words can be tapped
When naming a word, hit the table with your palm and ask the child: "How many times did we tap
?" - "Only once! So the word is short. nine0148 When you tap out a word of several syllables (for example: "goat", "milk"), first
call the first syllable "ko" and strike, pronounce: "one", bending the finger on the other hand;
then - “for”, make a blow, bend the second finger - “two”. "How many punches did we take? - Two!
So the word is long. Similarly, we tap words of three syllables, count and conclude:
is a long word!
JUICE
CAR
FOREST
RASPBERRY
MILK
GOOSE
GOAT

6.

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