There are very few words and it is usually at the end of words.Įxamples: toe, doe, foe, hoe, Joe, roe, woe, MoeĮxamples: deed, seem, speed, knee, fee, screech, fifteen, sleet, indeed, greedĮxamples: point, avoid, thyroid, devoid, rejoice, loiter, typhoid, poison, coil It comes at the beginning and middle of words.Įxamples: oat, coat, coach, throat, loan, goal, toast It comes at the end of words.Įxamples: bay, say, spray, pay, stay, haystack, away, sway It usually occurs at the beginning or middle of words.Įxamples: ail, mail, main, hair, quail, chair, stair, frail, air, strain, Spain, faith, waif, snail, drainĪy says ? (long a) as in Tray. So here goes:Īi says ? (long a) as in Train. Vowel Teamsīelow are the vowel teams, what sound they make and example words.
? Digraphs are two consonants together making one new sound, as in sh, or two vowels together making one new sound, as in ai saying /?/ or oe saying /?/. Examples oi saying “oi” as in oil or ou saying “ou” as in out. ? Diphthongs are two vowels making two separate sounds, but blended together make a new sound.
Vowel Digraphs are two vowels that make one new sound. A Diphthong will be two vowels that start out saying one sound, but blended end up as another. Vowel teams are made up of Diphthongs and Vowel Digraphs. This makes the “i” in Quit stay short as it would in most closed syllables. Why is this important? For pronunciation. QU is considered a consonant and always appears together in English. In dividing a word, a Vowel Team syllable will look like this:Ĭonceit con (closed or C) c eit (vowel team or V)Īs a side note: is this a vowel team? The word: Quit? NO! It is not.
These vowel teams are vowel sounds (it’s the sound, not just the letters) formed by two or more letters (notice it is letters, not vowels) within the same syllable. The final type of syllable is Vowel Teams – the V. So we’ve now gone through all of the syllable types except one in the REVLOC system of syllable division.
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