🔊 Hear the 5 long vowels
Tap each one — a long vowel simply says its letter name.
Real phoneme audio from the ReadingCraft app.
Long vs short — the quick difference
A short vowel is the clipped sound in cat, bed, sit, hot, cup. A long vowel says its name: cake, me, bike, home, cube. Two things usually turn a vowel long: a silent e or a vowel team.
One sound, many spellings
The heart of long vowels: the same sound can be written several ways. These are the common ones.
Long A /ā/
a_e cake · ai rain · ay play · eigh eight · ei vein
Long E /ē/
ee feet · ea beach · e_e these · y baby · ey key · ie field
Long I /ī/
i_e bike · igh light · y fly · ie pie
Long O /ō/
o_e home · oa boat · ow snow · oe toe
Long U /ū/
u_e cube · ue blue · ew few · oo moon
🔊 Vowel teams in real words
Two vowels, one sound. Tap to hear the team do its job.
Learn every sound — in the right order
Long vowels, vowel teams, blends and the full 44 sounds — taught step by step with audio, decodable books and games in the ReadingCraft Phonics Course. For ages 3–8.
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