A after W can say /ŏ/ as in water and want.Single vowels can say the short sound of other vowels. (In a vowel team, two vowels work together to make one sound.) In the word tub, U is followed by B and says /ŭ/.In the word mob, O is followed by B and says /ŏ/.In the word dish, I is followed by SH and says /ĭ/.In the word pet, E is followed by T and says /ĕ/.In the word cat, A is followed by T and says /ă/.(In a closed syllable, a single vowel is followed by a consonant.) The most common way: a single vowel in a closed syllable usually says a short sound. Once they learn the short sounds of the vowels and the consonant sounds, kids can decode hundreds of words! But just learning the simple spelling of the five short vowel sounds isn’t quite enough! You can help your child learn to read and spell even more words by teaching him four common ways to spell short vowel sounds. For example, in All About Reading Level 1, Lesson 1, we teach that A says /ă/ as in apple. In All About Reading and All About Spelling, we always start with the short sounds when we teach the multiple sounds for vowels. Because short vowel sounds are so prevalent in English, they are often the first vowel sounds that children learn.
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