Short vowels? Long vowels? Are they?

This is a question that exercises some. It generally isn’t one of my hills-to-die-on, BUT, you do need to be aware that using these terms can be a real problem for some children. If your pupils genuinely understand what is meant by ‘short’ vowel and ‘long’ vowel then great, these terms can be useful metalanguage […]

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