Educating lengthy vowels entails listening to, studying, and spelling phrases with numerous completely different spelling patterns. Educating lengthy ‘a’ phrases (as in acorn and rain) means educating college students the numerous methods lengthy ‘a’ is spelled.
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Educating Lengthy ‘A’
Lengthy ‘a’ will be difficult just because there are such a lot of ways in which letters come collectively to make an extended ‘a’ sound. Tackle this by educating phrase teams collectively. Begin with ‘a-e’ (bale, similar), then educate ‘ai’ (rain, declare), after which ‘ay’ (could, say). Train lengthy ‘a’ in open syllables while you sort out two-syllable phrases. And educate the much less frequent spellings when college students are prepared for them.
The most typical methods to spell lengthy ‘a’ are:
- ‘a’ as in acorn and apron
- ‘a-e’ as in lane and mane
- ‘ai’ as in rain and clarify
- ‘ay’ as in day and could
Much less frequent methods to spell lengthy ‘a’:
- ‘ei’ as in sleigh
- ‘ea’ as in break
- ‘eigh’ as in eight
- ‘ey’ as in hey
Take a look at our lists of lengthy ‘a’ phrases and the actions you should utilize to show them.
Lengthy ‘A’ Phrases
A-E Phrases
These are phrases which have the ‘a-e’ sample. The ‘e’ on the finish of the phrase makes the letter ‘a’ say its identify, or make the lengthy ‘a’ sound.
ace, age, ape, base, blame, courageous, cake, got here, cane, case, cave, face, flame, recreation, gate, gave, grade, grate, hate, lake, late, male, make, mate, identify, web page, pale, section, phrase, place, aircraft, race, price, secure, sale, similar, save, form, snake, house, stage, state, take, story, hint, commerce, wave
AI Phrases
assist, afraid, bail, mind, chain, day by day, dairy, element, fail, faint, religion, frail, achieve, grain, jail, laid, maid, mail, important, nail, paid, pail, ache, paint, plain, rail, rain, elevate, sail, snail, pressure, tail, path, prepare, wait, waist
AY Phrases
at all times, away, bay, betray, bray, clay, day, show, grey, hay, lay, could, okay, pay, play, pray, relay, say, keep, stray, subway, sway, at present, approach
EA Phrases
break, nice, steak, yea
EIGH Phrases
eight, eighteen, eighty, feign, freight, neigh, neighbor, sleigh, weigh, weight
EY Phrases
convey, disobey, gray, hey, obey, prey, survey, they, whey
Open-Syllable Phrases
In these phrases, the vowel is lengthy as a result of they’ve an open syllable.
ready, acorn, acre, company, agent, apex, apron, child, bacon, fundamental, basil, basin, foundation, cable, cradle, loopy, equator, favor, glacier, label, labor, girl, lazy, main, mason, bare, nation, nature, navy, paper, endurance, affected person, potato, radiant, razor, sacred, secure, station, desk, tomato, vapor, volcano
Study extra: Open and Closed Syllable Phrases and Actions
How To Use the Lengthy ‘A’ Record and Playing cards
The very first thing to do when educating vowel patterns is to level out the letters and patterns that make the lengthy ‘a’ sound. Select a couple of, educate them till college students grasp them, then use these phrases as references when college students want to determine which vowel sample a brand new phrase is utilizing. So, you would possibly educate college students the phrase weigh, after which after they hear freight, you possibly can inform them the vowels make the identical sound as in weigh.
Hear for Lengthy ‘A’
Learn phrases that do and shouldn’t have lengthy ‘a.’ Have college students elevate their hand in the event that they hear an extended ‘a’ sound. This builds college students’ phonemic consciousness, or capacity to listen to sounds in phrases.
Hear and Write
Learn phrases aloud and have college students write the phrases. This exercise, which engages youngsters’ capacity to recollect and apply spelling patterns, helps college students construct their reminiscence of letters and sounds. The method is fairly easy: Say the phrase, assist college students hear and write every sound, then learn the phrase once more.
Phrase Kind
Use the playing cards to type phrases based on lengthy ‘a’ spelling patterns. Begin with ‘a-e’ and ‘ai’ phrases, then construct to extra sophisticated spelling patterns and longer phrase lists.
I Spy
Show the phrase playing cards. Say a phrase or say the which means of a phrase and have college students “spy” the right phrase. You can too divide college students into groups and provides every staff a magnifying glass to show this recreation right into a relay.
Feed the Monster
Make a set of “monsters” out of empty tissue containers. Put a spelling sample on every monster. Then, have college students feed the phrase playing cards to the right monster. (The ‘a-e’ phrases go within the ‘a-e’ monster, the ‘ai’ phrases go within the ‘ai’ monster, and so forth.)
Comply with the Path
Create a phrase path with playing cards from one finish of a desk to a different. Have college students function a di and transfer a recreation piece that many playing cards. They’ll learn the phrase on the cardboard to maneuver forward.
Pool Noodle Phonics
Create a pool noodle spelling exercise by reducing up pool noodles and writing letters on them. Both learn a phrase or give college students phrase playing cards. They use the pool noodle letters to create and browse the phrase. College students may work in pairs the place one reads a phrase and the opposite creates it.
Study extra: Pool Noodle Phonics
Reminiscence
It’s a basic recreation. Put the playing cards face down. Have college students select two phrases at a time. If the lengthy ‘a’ spelling patterns match (cake and make, or day and could), they preserve the pair. On the finish of the sport, have every pupil learn out the phrases they collected.
Get Your Free Lengthy ‘A’ Phrase Printables
Print copies of the glossary and playing cards to maintain available for spelling lists, educating examples, and for video games and actions like those above.
