Why does Meet the Superkids teach only the short sounds of vowels?
Words with short vowels are easier for beginning readers to decode because only one letter stands for the vowel sound. Short-vowel words can be decoded by starting with the first letters and blending the sounds in sequence. Children have to use more complex rules to read words with long-vowel sounds. For example, to read the word note, children must notice the word ends in e and know that the e is silent and the o is long. The program teaches long vowels and vowel variants beginning in Level 3, after children have developed strong decoding skills with short-vowel words.
