Y as a vowel

Boy was it a cold start back after winter break. I can take a few days of this weather, but I'm just about over it. Of course the cold did not slow us down in class. We made the most out of the 3 days and 5 hours that we had this week. (Monday was an admin. day and Thursday was a delayed start.) My goals for this week were to introduce our January math and literacy centers (all 21 of them), to do a little Daily 5 retraining, to launch Rocket Math (addition fact drills), to teach all about Y…

A little late the party, but that is just how I roll. (You can ask my poor husband.) After a 12 hour day yesterday, I figured Five for Fraturday was totally OK. Here are a few things that have been going on in my class this week . . . Number 1 I started prepping for our spelling art project for next week. I planned on using my Super Bowl Friends pattern. Once I opened it, I realized it needed a little update. Now that I made some changes and put together some samples, I'm ready to prep for…

Although y is a consonant, once in a while it behaves like a vowel. Help your beginning reader practice sounding out a few of these tricky words.

1-2-3 Come Do Some Vowel Activities With Me The letter Yy is quite a unique letter, in that it can be both a consonant and vowel. To complicate matters, the Y has several different phonemes (sounds). It can have a long e sound, as in worry, as well as a long i sound, as in fly. With that in mind, I designed this Ys Guys & Spies packet, as recognizing special spellings for vowel sounds is part of successful decoding & word recognition. Just like my best-selling ”Vowels & Villains” packet…

Free resources to teach Y as I | sight and Sound Reading

The letter Y has many pronunciations. In English, it can be pronounced as a consonant or a vowel. As a consonant, it makes the sound /j/ as in "yes" or "yellow". As a vowel, it makes the sound /ɪ/ as in "my" or "buy". Y is also sometimes silent, as in "rhythm" or

Love these models for anchor charts that focus on phonics and blends.

Click here for Vowel Sounds of Y as i e Phonics Activities Games Y the Spy Phonics Friends has activities, lesson plans, centers, stations, and games that include hands on engaging fun! Skills included are y as a vowel long i long e, spelling, sorting sounds, building words, blending, fluency, segmenting, and more!

Long Vowel Y Word Sort: Long