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SUMMARY:Long A and Short A
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DESCRIPTION: Long A and Short A
So, here we are on Lesson 1. Let's start with Long A since it sounds like the letter in the alphabet that starts it all.
Long A - cake mail pay weigh whey - these are from the Phonics Cheat Sheet I gave you in the first lesson. These all sound like "ay".
You may recognize all or some of these - the words cake and mail are the two we talked about in the Overview lesson with the two rules that every new student of English should learn (refer to the Cheat Sheet here) 
Silent "e" (always blue) -> Cake - and Double Vowel -> Mail (these make the vowel have a "long" sound :)
Here are some examples of some more Long A words and their spellings - if you can get these patterns, then spelling and reading will be a lot easier for you.

See the 2nd row with Double Vowel words and 3rd row with words that end in "e"?
So let's talk about "Silent E", and why it is so important in English!
It is a signal to us to change the vowel sound from a short sound (as in cap) to...

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