![]() ![]() When reading a word that uses a short vowel sound, we will say the sound that the letter can make is not its actual name. ![]() A short vowel sound is a vowel sound that does not say its own name. When a vowel says its name, it is a long vowel. This could be useful for both teaching and learning. This site has demonstrated audio-visual utterances of all long and short vowel sounds. Whether a vowel has a long sound, a short sound, or remains silent, depends on its position in a word and the letters around it. A vowel letter can also have short sounds. When a vowel sounds like its name, this is called a long sound. Every vowel has two sounds- one short and the other long. We already learned about short vowels in our blog entitled consonants and short vowels. ![]()
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