Double Vowel Reading Lessons

Video Transcript

"About this time, we can start introducing double vowels. Now, with double vowels, we say in general, "The first one does the talking, and the second one does the walking." You might remember from school. Or you could just say, "The first one says his name, and the second one says nothing." Because double vowels, the kind we're talking about here, are always going to be long vowels, where the vowel actually says its name. So have your child start out by just saying the vowels, a, the sound they make: e, o, e, a. And then add some words. If you want, you can make a whole list of words that represent each type. You can even make a whole page of words if you can come up with as many. But, in general, here are some words. Here's the oa, boat; the ee, keep; ea, peal; ai, tail. And, again, in our trusty word notebook, which is the one thing I recommend that you keep all their words in a word notebook for whenever you make something for them. Make sure you use words that they've learned. And the fun thing, you'll find, the child will love when they read new books, even when they start reading regular books from the store or from the library, when they see a word they don't know or they haven't read before that fits into the word notebook under a certain rule, they'll say, "Oh, that goes on the double vowel page. We can add that. We can add that word there." And they get excited about that. So there we have it."