Vowels and Consonants

There are twenty-six letter in the alphabet. Five of the letters are vowels.

A,E,I,O,and U are vowels.

The letter Y is consonant but some times the letter Y is used as a vowel for I

Example: study, cry, dry, emergency

Consonants are all the letters of the alphabet, except the vowels (A-E-I-O-U, and sometimes Y) Consonants: b-c-d-f-g-h-j-k-l-m-n-p-q-r-s-t-v-w-x-y-z

"A" Sound Rule

cake, date, plate, wake, snake, cape, waste

Each of the above words has something in common. Look carefully at the consonants and vowels in each word.

The pattern for the "A" Sound Rule is letter a, consonant, letter e

Sometimes the pattern can be Letter a, consonant, consonant, letter e

 

Exercise 1

Which words are spelled correctly?

1) taste, tayst, taist, teast

2) layt, laite, leight, late

3) meight, mate, mait, mayt

4) creight, creat, crait, crate

5) state, stait, stayt, steight

6) payst, peighst, paste, paist

7) fare, fayr, faire, feighr

8) range, raynge, reighnge, rainge

9) beighk, baik, bake, bayke

10) bais, bayse, beighs, base






Answers:
1) taste, 2)late, 3) mate, 4) crate, 5) state, 6) paste, 7) fare, 8) range, 9) bake, 10)base

 

Exercise 2

Directions: Say the word. Cover the word. Write the word three times

haste

1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

vase

1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

waste

1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

paste

1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

late

1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

shake>
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

brake
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

make
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

state
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

late
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

cake
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

date
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

plate
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

ace
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

place
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

race
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

lace
1) _______________2)_______________3)_______________

 

Exercise 3

Choose the correct word for each sentence

1) The bride's gown is made of white (lays, lace, leighs).

2) I put the food on a (playt, plate, pleit).

3) She lives in the (staite, stayt, state) of Florida.

4) Bicycles, cars and buses have (brakes, breighks, brayks).

5) He used (paiste, payste, paste) to glue the paper together.

6) Our team won the relay (reighs, race, rayce).

7) We planned a (dait, deate, date) for the homeschool picnic.

8) After I study I know I will (make, mayk, mayke) a good grade.

9) Don't (sheak, sheigk, shake) the bottle it might drop it.

10) Throw the (weist, weast, waste) in the trash.

11) The park is my favorite (place, playce, pleighs).

12) The yellow roses in the (vaiese, vaece, vase) are beautiful.







Answers:
1) lace, 2) plate, 3) state, 4) brakes, 5) paste, 6)race, 7) date, 8) make, 9) shake, 10) waste, 11) place, 12) vase

 

Exercise 3

Unscramble the words.

1) seav

2) clape

3) satew

4) kaesh

5) keam

6) tead

7) caer

8) etsap

9) sraekb

10) atset

11) leatp

12) eacl







Answers:
1) save, 2) place, 3) waste, 4) shake, 5)make, 6)date, 7) race, 8) paste, 9) brakes, 10) state, 11) plate, 12) lace