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What is a Short Vowel Digraph?

A digraph is 2 letters that make up one sound. These can include

• Consonant digraphs
• Short Vowel digraphs
• Long Vowel Digraphs and
• R Controlled Vowel Digraphs

Short vowel sounds and digraphs are the short sounds of our vowels; a, e, i, o and u

✅ like the ‘e’ sound in bread and friend

For the purpose of our sanity, when we refer to ‘digraphs’, we are also referring to any number of letters that make up one sound; including single letters, digraphs (2 letter) and trigraphs (3 letters).

✅ like the ‘e’ sound in red, bread, bury, many, friend

6 Short Vowel Sounds:

• ✅ a like in ant
• ✅ e like in egg
• ✅ i like in ink
• ✅ o like in otter
• ✅ u like in unau (it’s a sloth!)
• ✅ oo like in book

Our resources below help you to understand and compare all the tricky short vowel sounds that make up our Aussie English language 👇

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Want to learn more?

Our CVC spelling packs make learning to read, write and spell fun and engaging and can be used in the classroom, for homeschooling or as spelling homework printables.

They are designed to help you better understand how our language is constructed and to teach tricky spelling concepts. 

Activities are repetitive and progressive, encouraging children to

• ✅ Sound it out (segment)
• ✅ Read it out (blend)
• ✅ Spell it out
• ✅ and Write it out

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