Description
What is Included
61 Long A Word Family Activities
- Finding Long A: find the list words in the story
- Meaningful Words: write the meaning of the list words in the story context
- Writing Long A: combine list words to create a short story or paragraph
- More Long A Words: find more words with the same Long A grapheme
- Rhyming Long A: highlight words with the same end sound
- Onset: change the first letter or letters to make new words, answers included
6 Long A Activities
- Homophones: write meanings and sentences for each pair of homophones
- Find All the Words: underline all the words in the story with a Long A sound
- Missing Letters: fill in the missing Long A letters for each word
- Choose the Letters: fill in the missing Long A letters in a story context
- Word Family Sorting: sorting words into 9 word families
3 Sight Words Activities
- Sight Words Sorting: sorting sight words into word families and analysis
- Sight Words Matching: cloze activity with sight words
- Sight Words Practice: check lists sorted according to Long A word family
2 More Ways to Spell Long A
- 7 More Ways to Spell Long A: Vocabulary Challenge
- 16 Ways to Spell Long A: Words and Picture Chart
4 Teacher Resources
- Long A Story: Baby Jake’s Birthday, 2 versions one with all black text and one with Long A words printed in green
- Complete Word List, 103 Long A Words
- Spelling Group Lists: 11 differentiated lists
- ’a’: 2 levels,
- ’a_e’: 4 levels, ’
- ai’: 2 levels,
- ’ay’: 2 levels,
- ’Unusual Ways’: 1 level
- Chart: 9 Ways to Spell Long A
These Activities Will Help Students to Develop Skills in:
- Understanding that sounds are represented by various letter combinations
- Using sound letter knowledge to read familiar and unfamiliar words
- Using words in everyday writing to show comprehension and context
- Applying letter sound knowledge to spell familiar and unfamiliar words
- Making new words by changing the first letter or letters
- Building vocabulary
- Recognising rhyme
- Recognising and understanding homophones