Short and Long I Vowel Sound Words List

One of the reasons why English spelling is so difficult to learn is because often the same sound is spelled in a variety of ways. Today we’ll discuss about vowel ‘i’ and different sounds produced by it when used in a word.

We have prepared an extensive phonics list to introduces students to “short i” and “long i” sound words.

Short I Vowel Sound Words

If you take a good look at the words given in the above table and try to pronounce them you will observe that you’ll hear a soft ‘i’ sound it because we don’t have to stress on the vowel ‘i’.

In past blog posts we’ve looked at how to spell the long /a/ sound and long /e/ sound. Now let’s have a look at long ‘i’ vowel words where you will see that we have to put stress on vowel ‘i’ if we want to pronounce the word correctly.

Long I Vowel Sound Words

Following is a list of long i sound phonics words for kids:

Let’s see the six ways of spelling the long /i/ sound with example words.

1. Using Letter I: These are polysyllabic words which spell the long /i/ sound with just the letter i. Usually long /i/ sound is in the first syllable

2. I – E Words: Here long /i/ sound is spelled using a split digraph i_e with an i in the middle of the word and an e at the end of the word.

3. IGH Words: Here we use letters igh to spell the long /i/ sound where the g and h are silent letters.

4. IG Words: These words spell the long /i/ sound with the letters ig and end with the letter n.

5. Y Words: In these words the long /i/ sound is spelled with the letter y. (usually at the end of a word and sometimes in the middle)

6. IE Words: the long /i/ sound is spelled with the letters ie at the end.

We put lot of emphasis on vowel ‘i’ that is why they are called Long ‘i’ vowel words.

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