What does vowel mean?
Word: Vowel
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Vowel means one of the letters a, e, i, o and u, or a speech sound made with the mouth open and the breath flowing freely.
Antonyms: consonant
How do you spell vowel?
Syllables: vow - el
Tricky part: The ending is el, not le or al. Students write vowle or vowal because the last sound is so short.
Watch out for: vowle, vowal, voul
Memory tip: Start with vow, a solemn promise, and add el. Make a vow to always learn your vowels.
Vowel in a sentence
Example 1: The word banana has three vowels, and they are all a.
Example 2: Our Hindi teacher compared the English vowels with the swar in Hindi.
Example 3: Change one vowel and pin becomes pen.
Fun Fact
Rhythm is a common English word with none of the five vowel letters; the y does the job of a vowel.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Read the four words. Choose the meaning of the misspelt word:
1. consonant 2. alphabet 3. vowel 4. sylable
a) a letter that stands for an open sound, like the a in cat
b) a letter that is not a vowel
c) a single unit of sound in a word
d) the set of letters used to write a language
Show answer
c) a single unit of sound in a word. Syllable needs the double l in its middle: syl-la-ble.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the letters in the sentence to form a meaningful word:
Every word on our spelling list had at least one lewvo in it.
a) vowel
b) towel
c) novel
d) jewel
Show answer
a) vowel. Novel has n, towel has t, jewel has j; only vowel has both v and w.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Our teacher asked us to circle each vowel in the poem and then copy the whole poem neatly into our notebuks.
a) vowel
b) neatly
c) teacher
d) notebuks
Show answer
d) notebuks. Notebook joins note and book, and book has a double o.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many vowel letters are there in the word education?
a) 4
b) 3
c) 6
d) 5
Show answer
d) 5
2. Which word begins with a vowel sound, even though its first letter is a consonant?
a) house
b) hotel
c) hand
d) honest
Show answer
d) honest
