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Teach your child to read words containing vowel combinations

Remember the old rhyme “i before e, except after c, or when followed by g as in neighbor or weigh?” Vowel combinations can be tricky not only in spelling but in reading, too. The tips below will help you teach your child to read vowel combinations at home.

When you think about it, the main difficulty with how to read words is in the vowels. Vowels and all of their sounds can make life difficult. Interesting, but difficult.

Teach your child to read long vowel sound words

My goal here is to provide parents with tips on how to teach their child to recognize and read long vowel sound words. In this step your child will learn to recognize when to say a vowel the long way.

Your child should be reading 3 letter short vowel words and 4-5 letter blends and digraph words with short vowels. See my posts on these here and here. They have been listening to the sounds in these words and have been writing down the sounds as letters.

It is important to keep practicing all of these types of words as you move forward.

Teach your child to read short vowel letter sound combinations called blends and digraphs

Letter sound combinations called blends and digraphs are fun to teach. In Step 8 of 10 Most important simple steps to teach your child to read I will provide some simple tips for how to teach these short vowel letter sound combinations.

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Like math, reading builds on skills that increase in complexity. You as the parent can “gamify” these words as much as you want so the complexity does not set up a road block. At the end of this post I list several games that have worked well for my students.