The short vowels use teamwork to make more vowel sounds.
The Vowel Tree is a playful phonics story that teaches young readers how vowels work together to create long, short, and diphthong sounds. Through teamwork, friendship, and fun, children build strong spelling and reading skills while learning that vowels are better together.
The vowel adventure starts with the short vowel sounds and moves through long sounds with magic E, Vowel teams for long and short sounds, and includes the other helpful consonant letters like tricky Y, W, and gh.
What is a Vowel Tree?
Designed to support early literacy development, this engaging phonics story introduces vowel teams in a memorable and meaningful way. By combining spelling patterns with lessons about friendship and cooperation, The Vowel Tree helps children build confidence in reading and spelling.
When to use ue or ui?
Pages that explain the reason for spelling patterns. See the letter U peeking down from the corner for page. Letter U does not like to be alone at the end of words. Letter E comes to the rescue. They stick together like glue.
This helpful hint combines visual links to spelling and reading.
This mnemonic visual for UI for juice is a student favorite. Letter U is filled with juice, standing next to letter I, which is tall like a drinking straw.
The book is filled with many more sounds and spelling tips.
The Vowel Tree invites young readers into a world where A, E, I, O, and U learn the power of teamwork. As the vowels grow and connect, children discover how single letters join together to form long vowels, short vowels, and diphthongs.
Designed to support early literacy development, this engaging phonics story introduces vowel teams in a memorable and meaningful way. By combining spelling patterns with lessons about friendship and cooperation, The Vowel Tree helps children build confidence in reading and spelling.
Perfect for classrooms, homeschooling, and shared reading at home, this book makes vowel sounds easy to understand—and fun to learn.
Great for:
- Early readers and emerging spellers
- Phonics and vowel team instruction
- Kindergarten through early elementary classrooms
- Parents and teachers looking for engaging literacy tools
The book will be released soon! ISBN 978-1-7644532-1-9 Paperback
Look for it on Amazon first. Author page D. Passmore