Year 3 · SPaG · Determiners and articles
Year 3 what is a vowel? worksheet and PowerPoint
To name the vowels and to find the vowels in a word.
Vowels and consonants
The alphabet has 26 letters. Five of them are vowels: a, e, i, o, u. All the other letters are consonants. Every word has at least one vowel.
| vowels | a, e, i, o, u |
|---|---|
| consonants | b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, z |
| in a word | cat: c and t are consonants, a is a vowel |
Examples
- The word apple starts with a vowel.
- The word frog starts with a consonant.
Key words
- vowel
- the letters a, e, i, o and u
- consonant
- every other letter of the alphabet
- letter
- a part of the alphabet
- word
- letters that make a sound or an idea
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Write ten words. Circle the vowels in each one and count them.
Pupil target: I can find the vowels in a word.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the what is a vowel? PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 31 of 53 in the Year 3 SPaG scheme, in the block “Determiners and articles”.
Other lessons in this block
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