Word Lists : Vowel Digraphs

These lists are just a selection of the commoner words in each group :
discusssion with the children will undoubtedly throw up many more examples!

Long Vowel Phoneme "A"
AI AY A-E
aid
aim
ail
bail
bait
daily
daisy
fail
gain
hail
jail
mail
maid
main
mainly
paid
pail
pain
paint
quail
raid
rail
rain
sail
snail
train
vain
away
always
bay
bray
day
fray
gay
gray
hay
jay
Kay
lay
may
May
pay
play
pray
ray
say
stray
spray
sway
way

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
ache
age
ale
ape
ate
bake
base
brake
cage
cake
came
chase
dame
Dane
date
daze
fame
fate
frame
gale
game
gate
gave
graze
hale
hate
Kate
lake
lame
late
laze
made
make
mane
name
page
pale
rake
sake
sale
same
shake
take
tame
vale
wake
whale
....and many, many more!!


Long Vowel Phoneme "E"
EE EA EY E-E
agree
degree
eel
feel
feet
fleet
free
heel
keel
keep
peel
peep
preen
queen
reel
seed
seen
sheep
sheet
steel
tree
three
weed
wheel
eat
east
easy
bead
beak
bean
beat
deal
dream
flea
glean
heal
heap
lead
lean
mean
pea
real
steal
teak
wheat
zeal
alley
donkey
key
monkey
valley
here
mere
scene


Long Vowel Phoneme "I"
IE Y IGH I-E
die
lie
pie
allies
dried
flies
fried
tried
tries
...and the plurals and past tenses of other words ending in "y"
by
deny
dry
fly
sky
spy
sty
shy
try
why
high
nigh
sigh
thigh
fright
night
sight
bike
dime
dine
file
fire
hide
hike
hire
hive
jive
kite
mile
mine
pine
quite
side
tide
tile
time
vine
wide
wine


Long Vowel Phoneme "O"
OA OW OE O-E
boat
boast
coat
foal
goad
goal
load
loan
moan
road
soap
toast
bow
bowl
blow
crow
flow
glow
show
snow
throw
doe
drone
foe
floe
goes
hoe
Joe
oboe
toe
woe
bone
code
dome
froze
gnome
home
joke
lone
mole
nose
note
ode
pole
quote
rode
sole
tone
throne
vole
woke
yoke
zone


Long Vowel Phoneme "U"
EW UE U-E
dew
few
flew
grew
hew
jewel
Kew
new
newt
pew
pewter
stew
view
yew
blue
due
flue
glue
gruel
hue
queue
rue
sue
suet
cube
cure
cute
duke
endure
fume
lute
mute
pure
rude
reduce
resume
sure
tube
tune


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