Long a sound activities

Vowel sounds are hard to practice, especially the A, E, and I. To make the phonics practice fun we created a fun vowel sounds practice game with cups!

Jessica Farmer on Instagram: "✨ Practice your vowels with me! Short & Long Vowel Sounds for a, e, i, o, u, _y. Say them 3 times for extra practice! Comment “Done ✅” after you practice. Follow @farmerlovesphonics for more phonics drills like this one! 🎉 #teachersofinstagram #teachersoftiktok #scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #phonics #phonemicawareness #foundationalskills #iteachfirst #prek #kindergarten #firstgrade #secondgrade #untileverychildcanread #ela"

Long a sound practice worksheets! If you are teaching the long vowel a, read about our favorite long a activities and get these fantastic worksheets. There are 20 pages for students to learn and practice the long vowel a sound. These worksheets cover short a vs long a, a_e, ai, and ay. Also included are long a words lists.

Short a Activities: Sort a_e and Sort a_e Learn to sort two-letter words by their first letter with these two fun activities! In Sort a_e, you'll drag and drop words to sort them into two columns, one for words that start with the letter "a" and one for words that start with the letter "e". In Sort a_e, you'll do the same thing, but with words that start with the letter "i" and the letter "o". These activities are great for practicing

Since the beginning of the year we have been tackling the short and long sounds a, e, i , o, and u. At the beginning of each new vowel sound I write a poem on the board that focuses on that particular letter sound. If you would like the long sound poems, go over to our Pinterest board and pin them for yourselves. After we read the poem together out loud, the boys took turns underlining the words with long A sound. As an activity we picked this fast and fun game, where the boys had to match…

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Arwa Saif | my_busy_kid on Instagram: "Long vowels are the tricky ones but we can make the learning less complicated and more logical by making these decodable flip books . Sort the words by long vowel sounds and then by the different ways they can be written for example- e , ea , ee all these make long e sounds . Once kids know this then it becomes really easy for them to decode and read the words instead of memorizing. I have used post it notes and card-stock paper to make these books…