Reflection 3

ENGLISH LONG VOWELS

          In the English language there are five long vowels. For these reason in this chapter we learned about the long vowels. The long vowels are the vowels that tend to be longer than the short vowels in the same context. These vowels are different to the short vowel in length and quality.

           You can recognize the long vowel because they have an specific symbols that consist of one vowel symbol and together this we can find a length mark made of two dots : . 
  
That is all for this chapter for more information you can visit the following sites:

·         http://www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/phonics/vowels/vowels.htm

·         http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/index.shtml

·         http://www.abcfastphonics.com/long-short-vowels.html

Video

·         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY6EZjcDZdA