The Vowel Teams Song (The Long I & Long U Sounds)
From Scratch Garden
3 min1st2nd3rdReading & Writing (ELA)
Summary
“The Vowel Teams Song (The Long I & Long U Sounds)” is a Scratch Garden song-and-animation that teaches a vowel team and the long-vowel sound it spells. A short, catchy video — easy to drop into a phonics lesson, a warm-up, or a transition.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Vowel teams are two vowels working together to make one vowel sound — often a long sound that 'says its name.'
- What vowel sound does this team make?
- What are two words that use this vowel team?
- Why can the same sound sometimes be spelled more than one way?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: vowel, vowel team, long sound, syllable, spelling.
Try it: List three words that use this vowel team. Circle the two vowels in each word and say the sound they make together.