Vowels
No. Phonemes Helping Words
1. /
i: / E
2. / I / it
3. / eI / A
4. /
e / egg
5. / æ
/ cat
6. / α: / R
7. / ɒ / dog
8. / ʌ / up
9. / u:
/ blue
10. / u / book
11. / ә
u / O
12. /
Ɔ: / awe
13. / 3: / sir
14. / ә / (/ ә’gәu/) ago
15. / aI / I
16. / au / cow
17. / ƆI / oil
18. / I ә / ear
19.
/ e ә / air
20. / uә / tour
(ii)
Some dictionaries give second length of /i:/
second with the symbol / i / for the letter ‘y’ ending in the words like
‘happy, angry, ready….’ . here, I only use / I / to replace /i/ sound.
Fun with Phonics
Letter clusters Phoneme helping word
[ ea, ee, eo, ie ] / i: /
E 1
Sean lives by the sea.
He always greets the sea
with so much glee.
He always leaps
with so much joy
to see seagulls
flying high and low above the sea (/ si: /).
He likes to take the seat (/ si:t /) made of teak
(/ ti:k /)
under a row of three trees
He likes to meet people (/ ˈpi:pl/)
by the sea
and greet them with so much glee ( / gli: /).
[ea,
ee] / i: / E 2
Sean
likes to beat (/ bi:t /) the drum
when
he eats peas and beans.
He
likes to eat leeks.
He
eats meat once a week (/wi:k/).
His
mum needs to heat up the meat
before
he eats.
He
feels weak
when
he does not eat leek for a week.
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Underline the
letter(s) with /i: / speech sound.
[ea, ee] / i: / E 3
Sean likes to read
when he is free (/fri:/).
He likes to sit in an easy chair
when he reads.
He always falls asleep (/ǝˈsli:p/)
in an easy chair when he reads.
Mdm
Chan, Sean’s mum always pleads (pli:dz) him
to read at the desk.
Sean does not seem keen
to read in that way.
He feels more at ease (/i:z/)
to read in an easy chair.
So he always falls asleep
in an easy chair when he reads.
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Underline the letter clusters with / i: / speech sound.
[ea,
ee] / i: / E 4
Sean always pleads,
“Tell me some
stories, please. Dear mummy.”
He pleads his mummy for some stories
before he sleeps.
“You may repeat (/rIˈpi:t/)
the same story,
‘The Princess Sleeping on a Pea’. please,”
he squeaks and squeals (skwi:lz) sometimes
when he is cranky.
[ea, ee] / i: / E 5
Sean likes to drink tea (/ti:/)
like his teacher Anna Lee.
She always drinks tea
besides a heap of books, neat and clean (/kli:n/).
She always chuckles reading the book
about a bird with a long big beak.
The bird likes to eat wheat
and feels at ease in a corner.
The wheat is cheap
and the farmer always gives it for a treat (/tri:t/).
The farmer and the bird with a long big beak
always live in peace and at ease
At least the farmer never feels uneasy
with the bird with a long big beak.
[ea,
ee] / i: / E 6
Sean likes to lead the class to read the book
about the bird with a long big beak.
He likes to highlight how the bees (/bi:z/)
make the wheat (/wi:t/) nice and sweet.
The bees sneak into the barn
when the farmer is not around.
They make the wheat sweet with honey.
The bird with a long big beak
likes to seek for some tree seeds (/si:dz/)
he needs to make wheat-seed meal.
[ea, ee ] / i: / E 7
The farmer likes to drive his jeep around.
He goes to his barn once a week.
He likes to peep into a hole to see
how his pet bird enjoys its wheat-seed meal.
The farmer uses a needle (/ˈni:dl/)
to clean
the peeping hole to peep in.
He knows how the bees make the wheat sweet.
The honey seeps into wheat slowly
to make it nice and sweet.
He knows how hard his pet bird
seeking for the tree seeds
He knows how it sweeps off
the husks under
the heap.
He takes a peek at the food.
He laughs sneakily to himself.
Wheat it eats is sweet indeed.
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Identify the letter
clusters with / i: / speech sound.
[ea,
ee] / i: / E 8
The bird with a long big beak
seems so meek and sleepy
with wheat- seed meal.
It falls into a sweet, deep sleep
immediately after it.
The farmer nearly cries in grief
to see his pet bird lying so flat and stiff.
He heaves a sigh of relief (/rIˈli:f/)
when he realises (/ri:ˈlaIzǝz/)
that his pet bird is only in a sweet deep sleep.
[ea,
ee, ie ] / i: / E 9
The bees in the field (fi:ld) are dancing
with so much glee.
The chief of the bees is in the belief (bIˈli:f)
that they should sieve (/ si:v /) the honey
which they yield (/ji:ld/).
They should shield (/ʃi:ld
/) the beehive
to keep off a sneaky (ˈsni:kI)
bear, the thief (/θi:f/).
The chief (/ʧi:f/)
of the bees wields (/ wi:ldz /) the power
to brief (bri:f) the bees to keep the yield in a seal (/
si:l /).
[ea,
ee, ie ] / i: / E 10
Sean likes to eat ice-cream.
He screams (/skri:mz/) for one
even in his dream
He often dreams about eating ice-cream
by
the stream near the spring
which gives out so much steam.
[ ea, ee, ie ] / i: / E 11
Sean is a player in a football team.
He and his team always beam.
Their team coach Geo. B likes
to treat them with ice-cream
Sean always leaps and screams
to thank him for the ice-cream.
Team Coach George B likes to say,
“You reap(/ri:p/)
what you sow.”
Sean leaps and screams even more.
He repeats the proverb
with his leader (/ˈli:dǝ(r)/)
George B,
“You reap what you sow.”
The two boys leap up really high
with a sharp loud scream.
They have a real (/ri:l/)
and meaningful (ˈmi:ŋIŋfl)
day in the field.
[ea,
ee] / i: / E 12
Sean likes to eat durians
when they are in season (/ˈsi:zn/).
He eats so many durians
with many good reasons (/ri:znz/).
When he becomes so heaty (/ˈhi:tI/),
he eats a lot of ice-cream.
He also keeps his cheeks
and body cool with some cream.
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