Review: Choosing the Right Vowel Pattern

You now know many vowel patterns: closed-in short vowels, silent e, open vowels, vowel teams, and bossy r. When you see a new word, find the vowel and look at what is around it. Let's read 'The girl rode her bike past a green farm.

' 'Girl' and 'her' have bossy r. 'Rode' and 'bike' have silent e. 'Past' is closed in, so a is short. 'Green' has the ee team. 'Farm' has ar. Each vowel pattern gives you a clue, so you never have to guess.

• 1Find the vowel and look around it.
• 2Each pattern points to a sound.
• 3Check that the word makes sense.