We practice dissecting words into bossy-r, keeping magic-e with its long vowel, and labeling the short and long vowel sounds and dividing them into syllables. / Julia Knarr, The Soulard School ...

This can make learning to spell the words quite tricky! Watch this short video to see some more examples of silent letter words. Vowel sounds are made by the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o' and 'u'.

You’ve eaten the alphabet again, haven’t you? Give him a hand. Start with the vowels. Vowels are the letters you can sound out without closing your mouth: A, E, I, O, and U. Every word needs one. All ...