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Name Phonetic Skill #5: Adjacent Vowels:
When two vowels are adjacent, the
second is silent and the first is long.

Section Seven: Phonetic Skill #5:

Adjacent Vowels speak
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1. W ork left to right under the word,
marking blends and vowels.

2. W hen vowels are adjacent, mark the speak
second one silent. XX

3. Mark the first one long. speak
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Prove these words using Skill #5.

pain steal fruit
XX

boat green snail

suit float train

sweep glue foam

brain street blue

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Section Seven: More Practice with Adjacent Vowels

Prove and read these words.

green glee heal
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eat sprain rain
faint bleak rail
cleat meat beat
treat dream sail
paint strain leap
speak twain tee
scream groan seal

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Name This diagram will help you memorize
the nine most common adjacent
vowels.

Section Seven: Memorizing the Nine Adjacent Vowels

In the right column, begin at the star and go up, filling in
four es and a y at the top. These are the middle and ending
adjacent vowel sounds. In the left column, put an i alongside
the top and bottom vowel and an a alongside the two inside
vowels. These are the beginning or middle adjacent vowel
sounds. When you’re done, it should look like this:
ai ay
ea ee
oa oe
ui ue
ie

a a

e e

o o

u u

i

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Name In words containing adjacent vowels
(Skill #5 words), simply add -ing.

Section Seven: Add -ing to Skill #5

Prove the words below. Rewrite them 2 times adding -ing
and underline the suffix. The first word is done for you.

rain raining raining
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leap
speak
paint
sail
dream
scream
sweep

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Section Seven: Prove It To Me!

The words on this page use all 5 Skills. A sample of
each skill is marked for you. Prove the rest of the words.

stop* wall slope
XX

wen*t* poke cake
X

me grain goat
X

bone so tell
XX

trail crop rain
XX

stomp west feet

flame stripe stale

tall seat fruit

we kite toe

dog go meat
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Name This exercise requires you to decode
the words at the bottom to decide if
they follow the long or short rules.

Section Seven: Sorting the Five Skills

Prove the words at the bottom of the page.
Write the word under LONG if the vowel has the long sound.
Write the word under SHORT if the vowel has the short sound.

LONG SHORT

gum

gum* tie lamp sail trip
X

tree smoke frog cake desk

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