This goes for letter teams too: OW can make glow as well as cow. There are some more digraphs to meet too: wh, ph, au, aw, ir, ow, oy. To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.

Phonics was the preferred method for teaching of reading until the 1960s when it fell out of favour. But what does it mean and how will its teaching make a difference.

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"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long.