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  • Short Vowels Skill Explainer

Quick Look: Short Vowel Sounds Warm-Up

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Produced by Reading Universe, a partnership of WETA, Barksdale Reading Institute, and First Book
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DeAngela Huggins: So let's drill our vowels. So we're going to do only our short vowel sounds. Are you guys ready? And let's go. We have ...

Students: 'a', apple, /ă/ ...

DeAngela Huggins: Very good.

Students: 'u', up, /ŭ/ ...

DeAngela Huggins: Alright.

Students: 'i', itch, /ĭ/ ...

DeAngela Huggins: Very good. And we have ...

Students: 'o', octopus, /ŏ/ ...

DeAngela Huggins: Very nice. And we have ...

Students: 'e', Ed, /e/ ...

DeAngela Huggins: Very good.

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