Answer: As a Vowel or Consonant The letter is one example of a letter that sometimes acts as a vowel and sometimes as a consonant. The letter is another letter that sometimes acts as a vowel and sometimes a consonant.
The letter is usually a consonant. It is a vowel only when it teams up with an , , or to spell a single sound—as in the words draw, few, and low. So the letter is a vowel only in the two-letter teams , , and .
Everywhere else is a consonant. It is a consonant when it spells the sound it does at the front of way, and it is a consonant when it teams up with and — as in write and who.
Examples
Listen to the sound the is spelling or helping to spell in each of these words. Then determine if it is acting as a vowel or a consonant.
1. In below, the is working in the team and thus is acting as a vowel.
2. In went, the is making the vowel sound and the is not working in an , , or team, so it is acting as a consonant.
1. Listen to the sound the is spelling or helping to spell in each of these words. Then sort the words into the two groups below:
