Vowel Wheels | Clip Cards

You receive:

• 48 full-colour wheels
• 48 black-and-white wheels

Cut out and laminate the wheels for durability. Children can use clothing pegs or paper clips to match pictures to the corresponding sounds. One wheel per A4 page.

The set covers the following vowels and vowel teams:

1. Short Vowels

a (hat, bag, pan, cat, fan); e (web, bed, pen, hen); i (six, fish, pig, pill); o (dog, pot, box, frog); u (bus, hut, mug, sun); ea (head, bread)

2. Long A Vowels

ai (jail, rain, snail, train); ay (tray, pray, play, hay); a-e (snake, cake, ape, plate); ei (rein, vein, reindeer); ea (steak, break); ey (grey, prey); eigh (weigh, sleigh, eight)

3. Long E Vowels

ee (three, tree, feet, bee); ea (seal, tea, read, leaf); ie (priest, thief, shield); ey (key, monkey, money, honey); e-e (athlete, centipede, Chinese)

4. Long I Vowels

ie (pie, tie, die); i-e (mice, file, five, kite); y (sky, cry, fly, spy); igh (right, fight, sight, light)

5. Long O Vowels

oa (boat, coat, soap, goat); oe (toe, doe, hoe); o-e (stove, rose, rope, hose); ow (window, bow, grow, bowl)

6. Long U Vowels

ew (screw, new, mew, stew); u-e (cube, flute, mule, dune); ou (you, soup, coupon); oo (moon, food, boot, tooth); oo – short u (wood, foot, cook, book); ue (rescue, statue, tissue, glue); ui (fruit, juice, suit)

7. R-Controlled

ar (arm, car, shark, star); er (feather, tiger, spider, letter); ir (skirt, shirt, bird, girl); or (horse, sword, forty, fork); ur (surf, turn, turtle, church); oar (oar(s), roar); ore (store, shore, core); our (court, four, pour)

8. Other Vowel Teams

aw (straw, claw, saw); au (pause, sauce, Australia); oi (boil, coin, oil, oink); oy (toy, boy, joy, oyster); ow (owl, flower, cow); ou (cloud, house, mountain, mouth); ou (sour, hour)