Knowing how vowels and consonants work together to make words and sounds will help you with your spelling. NARRATOR: Give him a hand, start with the vowels. The blue monster puts its foot on the ...

Schwa u > is the most commonly occurring vowel. It is pronounced as [U] between rounded consonants. In Downriver and Upriver dialects it is frequently pronounced as [I] between alveolar and palatal ...

I love playing with poetic devices like alliteration (the repetition of beginning sounds), assonance (the ... all those crackling consonants still send playful shivers down my spine!

The letter Y can stand for either of these types of sounds. In "yes," Y is representing a consonant, and in "gym" it is representing a vowel. In fact, due to the imperfect match between writing ...

Knowing how vowels and consonants work together to make words and sounds will help you with your spelling. NARRATOR: Give him a hand, start with the vowels. The blue monster puts its foot on the ...