In this article we offer you a series of vowel resources to print in full color, to color, to cut out, uppercase and lowercase so that you can have various options to work with children.
If you’re an educator or a homeschooling parent or just a parent who’s very committed to supporting your child’s education, these great printable lowercase and uppercase vowel resources will help you get out of trouble when teaching vowels to your little ones.
Resources to download
We offer a variety of downloadable resources that contain the five vowels so that you can print them out and work with children to deepen their knowledge of vowels.
All these vowel resources to print pdf can be enjoyed in this format so that you can download and print them more easily.
Vowel resources to print in color
Here you can download some nice vowel resources to print in color pdf where children can identify them, learn them and begin to identify some words that begin with these letters.
Additionally, you have vowel options to print uppercase and lowercase in color.
Vowel Resources to Print and Cut Out
Here you can download vowel resources to print and cut out in color and also to color so that you not only work on the knowledge of vowels as such but also develop other super important fine motor skills in children such as cutting out and coloring.
Vowel Resources to Print and Color
Here you will be able to download vowel resources that are not in full color precisely so that children can not only identify the vowel and some images of words that begin with that vowel, but they can also color and thus also work on fine motor skills.
Printable Vowel Activity Resources
You can also download some printable vowel activity resources that can offer children matching activities, completing, assimilating a picture with a word, etc.
Learn more about vowels
To complement the theme of resources to download and print with vowels, we give you another series of information that will be very useful to complement the teaching of children about vowels and your own learning.
Below you will find some curiosities about vowels:
- The first thing they teach us as children, when we begin the path of literacy, are the vowels.
2. In the Spanish language, the vowels are five A, E, I, O, U but in other languages there may be more or less than the 10 initials of the Latin language. For example, Italian has 7 vowels, Portuguese has between 8-9, etc.
3. The letters are divided into consonants and vowels. Vowels are phonemes or sounds that are named without having to accompany them with another consonantal or syllabic sound.
That is, the vowel sound is totally simple, unlike a consonant, for example, the letter H is named HACHE, the letter J is named JOTA, the letter M is named EME, while the U is named as U, the A as A and so on.
4. There is no word that can be built without the help of vowels, however, vowels themselves can be a word.
For example:
The vowel E is used as a copulative conjunction that is used to replace the Y in cases where we have to express phrases such as: parents and children, we must organize ourselves and insist, the children stayed home and made a cake, etc.
The vowels O, U can act as disjunctive conjunctions, to link two or more elements but offering a relationship of alternation or mutual exclusion. Next, we will give some phrases that will serve to ground this concept: Do you want to fry or bake the fish? I don’t know if I am more arrogant or proud, I don’t remember if it was Thursday, or Friday, or Saturday.
5. Vowels can be classified into strong or open vowels (A, E, O) and weak or closed vowels (I, U).
Relationship between hiatus, diphthongs and vowels
By means of vowel combinations in words, hiatus and diphthongs are formed. Next we will see some cases:
Diphthong: Diphthongs are formed in two ways:
- It is the union of a closed vowel and an open vowel or vice versa (if the word has an accent, only the open vowel can have an accent). Examples: JU-NIO, BOI-NA, GAME-GO, SONG, BASEBALL, MON-CIER-NA-GA, etc.
- It is the union of two closed vowels (if the word has an accent, it can only be in the second vowel). Examples: CUI-DAR, JUI-CIO, DIUR-NO, A-CUÍ-FE-RO, LIN-GÜÍS-TI-CA, CA-SUÍS-TI-CA, etc.
Hiatus: Hiatus are formed in two ways:
- The union of two open vowels when the word is written, but in different syllables. Examples: TO-A-LLA, TRI-NE-O, CA-OS, CA-Ó-TI-CO, PE-ÓN, HÉ-RO-E, etc.
- When breaking a diphthong, that is, when an open and closed vowel joins and vice versa, but the accent is on the closed vowel. Examples: FRÍ-O, HE-RO-Í-NA, ES-TAN-TE-RÍ-A, VO-CE-RÍ-O, PA-ÍS, etc.
As you could tell, there is a whole theory around vowels, that many of us did not even know or that we used phrases like the previous examples but we had no idea that they were conjunctions for example. But since it is never too late to learn, we leave this idea open so that you are left wanting to learn much more.
We invite you not only to download the great resources that we have made available to work with vowels without letting your imagination fly and thus, some activities with vowels to print different from those that we already show you may arise.
We hope that not only have you liked the vowel resources to print that we present to you, but that you have understood a little more about vowels so that you can also pass it on to children and other people.