This video is by narrated by Ira Heinichen. The teacher must emphasize on long vowel sounds.

The teacher can play this introductory video about long and short vowels. So in the case of “A,” the word “main” might have a long “A” sound because we pronounce the “A” as /ā/, whereas the word “man” has a short vowel sound.

When reading a word that uses a short vowel sound, we will say the sound that the letter can make is not its actual name. A short vowel sound is a vowel sound that does not say its own name. When a vowel says its name, it is a long vowel. This could be useful for both teaching and learning. This site has demonstrated audio-visual utterances of all long and short vowel sounds. Whether a vowel has a long sound, a short sound, or remains silent, depends on its position in a word and the letters around it. A vowel letter can also have short sounds. When a vowel sounds like its name, this is called a long sound. Every vowel has two sounds- one short and the other long. We already learned about short vowels in our blog entitled consonants and short vowels.

What is a long vowel