What’s on the Vowel Teams poster
The rule, 4 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes.
- Two vowels walking together usually make one long sound — and it is normally the firs…
- ai · ay · ee · ea · oa · ow
- rain, play = long a
- tree, team = long e
- boat, snow = long o
- pie, tie = long i
- Common mistake: braed → bread
"Two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking" — right about 70% of the time.
Questions about the Vowel Teams poster
- What’s on the Vowel Teams poster?
- The rule, 4 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes. Two vowels walking together usually make one long sound — and it is normally the firs…; ai · ay · ee · ea · oa · ow; rain, play = long a; tree, team = long e; boat, snow = long o; pie, tie = long i; Common mistake: braed → bread. "Two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking" — right about 70% of the time.
- Who is the Vowel Teams poster for?
- Vowel Teams is filed under 2nd Grade (ages 7–8), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting literacy, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Vowel Teams poster?
- Point at the rule before they write, not after you mark it. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Vowel Teams belongs on the wall where that literacy work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Vowel Teams?
- Compound Words, Contractions and Making Plurals sit alongside Vowel Teams in the 2nd Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Compound WordsContractionsMaking Plurals
- Is the Vowel Teams poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Vowel Teams downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 2nd Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Vowel Teams poster print at?
- Vowel Teams is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Vowel Teams loses nothing.Printing guide
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