Long VCC
100

These are tricky words endings because they change the sound of the vowel in the word.

What are the word ending OLD, ILD, OLT, OST. 

200

What is different about the vowel sounds in the words that end in ILD, OLD, OLT and OST?

The vowels all have a long vowel sound, even though they are in a closed syllable.
300

Most wild colts are bold and kind. 

This is an example of the LONG VCC endings, where the vowel even though it is 'cut-off' by a consonant is pronounced long. 

400

These endings don't follow the rules that apply to vowels in closed syllables. 

What is different about words that tend in ILD, OLT, IND, OLD and OST?

500

Long VCC words

What words ending need to be remembered because they do not follow the rule that the vowel in closed syllables is a short syllable?

M
e
n
u