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First Time Visitor?  See instructions below table.

CLICK VOWEL LETTER COMBINATIONS BELOW TO HEAR THEIR SOUND

Short
Vowels		 Long
Vowels		 Digraphs
2 letters
1 Sound		 R
Controlled
Vowels		 DIPHTHONGS
2 Letters
2 Sounds
short a long a ai ar ou
short e long e ee er oo - long
short i

long i

 ie ir oo - short
short o long o oa or ew
short u long u ea (2) ur ow - long
     ay   ow - short
     au   oi
     aw   oy

The links above provide an excellent way to practice and memorize the essential vowel sounds.
If the person you are teaching to read does not have these sounds memorized,
the rate at which they will learn new reading and spelling words will be dramatically lower.
The only exception being the fortunate upper 10%-20% of our readers who are able to read
no matter which method they are taught.

HOW TO USE THE VOWEL SOUND TEACHER ABOVE

1)  Click any letter sound in the table above

2)  I will say the letters and then pause 5 seconds giving you time to say the sound before I say it.

3)  I then give several word examples and ask you to say it again - this time pausing for only 2-3 seconds

4)  This can be used in teacher training or adult reading programs -
and is an excellent resource for college professors preparing education students.

To hear the sounds, you must have the REAL PLAYER G2 (or higher) installed on your computer.
Download takes approximately 10-15 minutes with a 28K modem and is very easy to do.
You only need to do this once and you'll then be able to hear
 all the great teaching audio and video we are placing on TampaReads.com
Click the DOWNLOAD PLAYER link below - 
and scroll to the bottom of the page to look for the "FREE" Real Audio Player.
 DOWNLOAD REAL PLAYER - CLICK HERE

No doubt about it - Children who have all the vowel sounds memorized will learn to spell and read at a much faster rate.  Although we as educators have done a satisfactory job in making sure children have memorized their basic consonant sounds (b - d - f - etc), we have been unsuccessful in teaching our children all the essential 31 vowel sounds above.  This lack of complete memorization seriously handicaps children of average and below average reading ability. Please do whatever it takes to get these sounds memorized for maximizing student reading progress.

To encourage motivation,
reward any student who is able to say all sounds correctly.

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