Reading Words with Two Consecutive Vowels

     My daughter has been really struggling to decode words with 2 consecutive vowels.  I kept repeating the phrase from the Letter Factory, "When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking."  For some reason this was meaningless to her.

    A few weeks ago she was trying to read something in the car.  And she stumbled upon one of these blasted words.  I was really frustrated and this analogy came to me, so I told her in my gangster voice , "The first vowel tells the second vowel to shut up and let me do the talking....yo....my name is letter A".
Ethan and Hannah were hysterical after I told them this.
 
     Hannah no longer has trouble remembering the rule.  It's not the most delicate way to teach the rule but it works.