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👉 Remember, students should try both sounds /yoo/ and /oo/ when reading these words to listen for which one sounds right. 🧙‍♀️ Many Magic E words include the U-E pattern and and make the long /oo/ sound. One can clearly hear the /oo/ sound within the word at the end of the open syllable. In all 30 words listed below, one of the syllables is open and ends in the letter U. 👩‍🏫 Although there are many different long vowel spellings, I focus my instruction heavily on the ones we find most frequently in text, marked with an asterisk (*) above.īelow you’ll find each of the seven ways to spell long U along with many common words where the /oo/ sound is clearly heard. 👉 The reason for this? It’s difficult to pronounce the /y/ sound after many consonants, especially L and R. The second sound of long u sound is clearly different from the first sound because the /y/ part of the long U sound /yoo/ is lost, resulting in the /oo/ sound. EU (Vowel Team)ĮU is a vowel team used within the baseword, usually at the beginning or in the middle. *UE can also be a silent ending at the end of a word after the letter g or q (like vague, morgue, unique, etc). In this vowel team, the U+E join together to make the long U sound. Vowel team EW is used at the end of base words like the ones listed below. The W is considered a vowel in this team. The E at the end will stay silent, making the U says it’s name. In this silent E spelling, the ū sound will be in the middle of the word. 🤐 The u– consonant- e pattern is another way to spell long ū. 👉 English words do not end in the letter U, so we will rarely see an open syllable U at the end of a word unless it is derived from another language (e.g. We call syllables that end in a vowel open syllables.Īn open syllable can be at the beginning of a word like u/ni/corn OR in the middle of a word like d u/ty. The letter U will be long in a syllable that ends with the letter U. 👩‍🏫 I focus most of my instruction on the spelling patterns we find most frequently in text, marked with an asterisk (*) above.