Try these vowel team flashcards as a tool to help your children master vowel team sounds.
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These vowel team flashcards are designed to be another tool available for your phonics instruction.
If you are looking for additional phonics resources to help your children master sounds, these can be added to your classroom or home tools.
What are vowel teams?
Unsure of what vowel teams are? Start here! (If you already know, skip to the end for your free download.)
Vowel teams are sounds that work together to form a long vowel sound although children are able to stretch out the sound to hear both letters.
These flashcards will provide your children with practice with words containing long vowel pairs. The vowel teams included are: ai, ea, oa, ue, oi, ee, ie, oe and ui.
Using these vowel team flashcards
You will find these vowel team flashcards in four formats.
The download includes:
- each blend on a card
- a picture for each blend on a card
- a blend next to a picture on a card
- a word containing the vowel team on a card
Some ideas for using these cards include:
Begin with the cards containing the vowel team and picture on one card. Continue by saying the name of the picture and then saying the vowel team sound.
Have your child name the picture on the card. They can then identify the vowel team they hear at the beginning. You might then have your child write the letters on a whiteboard so that they are matching the letters with the sound.
Once your child has mastered this task, they can try reading the vowel team without the picture clues. You might ask them to make a list of words they know beginning with the vowel team.
These cards can also be used as a matching activity. Have your child match the vowel team letters with the picture. Extend the activity by playing a go fish style game or a memory game with these cards.
You can download these free Vowel Team Flashcards here:
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Thank you to Whimsy Clips for the vowel team clip art.
