"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long.

Wizard 1:They can make both sounds when you put them together. They can be a long ‘oo’, or a short ‘oo’. Wizard 2:Ooooh, I see. H, oo, k, hook! Wizard 1:W, oo, d, wood! Wizard 1 ...

We are revisiting the pronunciations of short and long vowel sounds  /r/ and /r:/, as we have in ‘chip’ and ‘cheap’.