hi I'm Ashley and welcome to short vowel sounds in this video we're going to
learn the five vowels and the short sounds they make are you ready
let's go these are all the letters of the alphabet
there are 26 Wow each letter has its own sound and we use
these sounds to make words there are five vowels a e i o and you sometimes
Y is also a vowel but we won't cover that one just yet vowels are very
special letters because every word has to have one each of the five main vowels
have a short sound and a long sound if there is only one vowel in a word it
usually makes its short sound to help us read the sounds correctly we can mark
our vowels with a little smile like this
maybe a little bit smaller notice I'm marking each one with a smile for the
short sound let's take a closer look at each of these short vowel sounds this is
the letter a short eight makes the a sound like at the beginning of Apple or
in the middle of cat say short a with me ah great job this is the letter e short
email and like in
or pet say shorty with me ah you got it
this is the letter I short I makes the sound like in igloo or
in the middle of the word pin say short I with me a great job this is the letter
O short o makes the ah sound like at the beginning of octopus or in the middle of
the word pot say short o with me ah you got it here we have the letter u short u
makes the ah sound like at the beginning of umbrella or in the middle of the word
cup say short you with me ah great job congratulations you just learned the
short vowel sounds as you practice reading words be sure to mark all the
short vowels you can with a smile now go tell someone about the vowels you
learned today and what their short sounds are then practice what you
learned with our online games and quizzes and remember to always be clever