Yy is a vowel reading help

                                                                    

Would you like to pet this furry bunny?
Albrecht Durer painted this watercolor  
 in the year 1502.

The vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y.   Always include y; this will eliminate uncertainty about y when your child learns how to add suffixes, like ed and ing.   

While reading easy-to-read stories with your child, point to the y at the end of words, like furry and bunny.

Say bunny together. Help your child say and hear the e sound at the end.  Now say furry several times and hear the e.

Look for other words in the story that end with y, like happy, tiny, pretty. Say the words, listen for the e.

Just so you know: the letter e at the end of a word is usually silent, as with snake and name.            

Y has three possible sounds at the end of a word:  

1) Most common: y says the long e sound: any, every, hurry, carry, and when ly is added as an ending, such as slowly, gladly, quickly, quietly, happily, carefully, instantly.

                                             

2) Y says the long i sound at the end of one syllable words: my, why, try, sky, spy, cry, buy, guy, reply, rely, ally, wry, awry; by the middle grades: identify, verify, specify, vilify, etc.

3) In the ay / ey teams, y is the second and silent vowel: day, play, say, they, obey, convey.

Y has three sounds inside a word:

1) the long i sound: python, eye, type, rhyme

2) short i sound: myth, bicycle, symbol

3) Y uses its consonant sound as the first letter: yes, yellow, yummy; also, beyond, crayon, canyon.  

You may like to look at my Vowel Power book to help your child become a reading star. It teaches through stories and skills practice and is full of color pictures. 

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Have a great day, Mary Maisner