Vowel Team Syllables
Every syllable in a word has only one vowel sound. Sometimes the vowel sound is spelled with more than one letter. When this happens, the syllable is called a vowel team syllable. Vowel teams have more than one letter that stand for a single vowel sound. Vowel teams include:
- ai as in main
- ea as in reader
- ee as in breezy
- oi as in toil
- ou as in mouth
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Vowel Team Syllables Worksheet
A. Divide each word into syllables. Underline the vowel team.
- creature
- rounded
- straighten
- beehive
- spoilage
B. Read the words in each row. Circle the word that has the same vowel team as the word in bold.
- 6sixteen sneeze teamwork
- 7. exploit smoothly moisten
- 8. leader maintain impeach
- 9. household below holdout
- 10. painful exclaim explanation