Long Vowel Digraphs: ai, ee, ea, oa, ow

Long a is sometimes spelled ai: paint.

Long e is sometimes spelled ee or ea: speech, feast.

Long o is sometimes spelled oa or ow: coast, arrow.

If a word has two vowels in a row, the first vowel is usually long, and the second vowel is silent.

1.    coast

2.    feast

3.    speech

4.    wheat

5.    Spain

6.    paint

7.    arrow

8.    needle

9.     charcoal

10.  praise

11.  faint

12.  maintain

13.  crease

14.  groan

15.  breeze

16.  willow

17.  appeal

18.  bowling

19.  complain

20. sneeze

Challenge Words

21. dungarees

22. bungalow

     23. campaign

24. speedometer

25. referee