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Spellings
Homophones: ‘ai’, ‘a-e’
- Vowels are the letters ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, ‘u’, all other letters are consonants.
- Vowels can make a short sound (‘a’ as in ‘tap’) or a long sound (‘a’ as in ‘tape’).
- A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another but is spelt differently.
- A homophone can also be spelt the same as another word but have a different meaning.
- Many homophones use the different spellings for long vowel sounds.
| Medium | Hot and Spicy |
| Of | Bail |
| My | Pail |
| One | Wail |
| Him | Main |
| Time | Vain |
| It | Bale |
| Her | Pale |
| Them | Whale |
| Mr | Mane |
| I'm | Vane |
| Lain | |
| Lane | |
| Waist | |
| Waste |