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Knowledge
- The letter y can represent three different vowel sounds depending on the number of syllables in the words and its position in a word.
Skills
- Encode (spell) words with vowel y in the final position of one and two syllable words.
- Distinguish the difference between the long /ī/ sound in one-syllable words (like fly and my) and the long /ē/ sound in two-syllable words (like baby and happy).
- Encode (spell) words with vowel y in medial position, such as myth and gym.
Understanding
Y can represent three vowel sounds: long /ī/, long /ē/, and short /ĭ/.
- Letter y represents the long /ī/ sound in one syllable words when the y is in the final position.
- Letter y makes the long /ē/ sound in two-syllable words when the y is in the final position.
- Letter y represents the short /ĭ/ sound when the y is in the medial position of the word.
Vocabulary
- Encode
- Vowel y
- Medial position
- Final position
- One-syllable words
- Two-syllable words
- Long /ī/ sound
- Long /ē/ sound
- Short /ĭ/ sound
