Irregular Vowel 
"schwa"

Phonics 103C

schwa

Many words have
lazy vowels that say
"uh".  We call these

schwa
vowels.

umbrella

Write the best word to finish the sentence.

1. A  dragon  breaths fire.
(dragon, drum)

2. The  _____  was cute.
(tundra, panda)

3.  The  ______  had beautiful stripes.   (zebra, aloha)
4.  We munched on a bowl of  ______.   (novels, nuts)
5.  The  ______  was tasty but sour.   (lemon, oven)
6.  Our  ______  was far too short?   (occur, holiday)
7.  An old  _____  covered the wall.   (mural, mother)
8.  We played in the  ______  waves.   (nation, ocean)