Students may give less attention to medial sound spellings as they focus on initial and ending sound spelling.

Sorting activities help students learn the most common spelling patterns. It may be helpful to focus on one long vowel spelling at a time, and have students sort words with two or three different spellings for the same long vowel sound (e.g.

Students may have difficulty learning all of the different spellings of each vowel sound, at the same time.

ā/ can be represented with a, a_e, ai, ay, ae, etc).

Long vowel team conventions can be difficult to learn – students have to grasp the idea of having more than one letter, and more than one combination, to represent the same sound (e.g.

Students first need to know how to decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with vowel teams, before they are able to produce spellings of regularly spelled one-syllable words with vowel teams.

Game 2: Rainy Day Spelling (short a, a-e, ai).

Words with Vowel Digraphs (download worksheets for words with ai, ea, ee, oa, oo).

P.017 Variant Correspondences Same But Different.

Reinforce Skills/Independent Work Time – Independent/Small Group Center Activity

Alphablocks: Series 4 – 07 – Sleep (ee, ea).

Learn to Read | Phonics for Kids | Long A Vowels.

Nessy Spelling Strategy: When To Use ai Or ay.

Lesson #6: Short e (e, ea) & Long e (ea).

P.047 Canned Sort (Note: leave out “ow” page).

P.049 Vowel Slide (Note: leave out “oo” page).

P.050 Flip Manipulating Books (Note: leave out diphthongs and variant vowel combinations – to be used on following skills).

P.016 Variant Correspondences How Many Words?.

P.052 Variant Correspondences Say and Write Letters.

T: Spell (or write) the following words: wait, mute, tray, boat, mope, heat, feet, pie, fly, few Activities and Resources Small Group Instruction – Direct Instruction

a_e, ay, o_e, oa, etc.) with the aid of teacher or when referring to sound/spelling card. Mastery: Student is able to spell words that contain long vowel sounds, a_e, ay, o_e, oa, etc.Īcquiring: Student is able to spell words with long vowel sounds (e.g. ā/ spelled a_e, ai, or ay /ē/ spelled ea or ee /ī/ spelled i_e or ie /ō/ spelled oa, ow, or o_e /ū/ spelled ew, etc) StandardĬ.1.3.C: Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

RF.1.3.C.iii: Know the Various Spellings for Words with Long Vowel Sounds (e.g.

Long ay and ai worksheets