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AI, AY and A_E Vowel Team Lesson Resource Pack

Updated: 07 Dec 2023

Introduce students to AI, AY, and A_E vowel digraphs with this set of teaching slides and mini activity book.

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 1 - 2

Curriculum

AC9E1LY11

Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and blend these to read one- and two-syllable words
AC9E2LY10

Use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter/s) matches, including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, consonant clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllables, including compound words

teaching resource

AI, AY and A_E Vowel Team Lesson Resource Pack

Updated: 07 Dec 2023

Introduce students to AI, AY, and A_E vowel digraphs with this set of teaching slides and mini activity book.

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 1 - 2

Introduce students to AI, AY, and A_E vowel digraphs with this set of teaching slides and mini activity book.

The Ultimate AI, AY, and A_E Vowel Digraph Resources

Is it time to introduce your students to some of the different graphemes that produce the long a sound? Then, this resource pack is going to be your teaching buddy!

This set of 18 teaching slides will guide your students through the initial phases of grasping the following digraphs/split digraphs:

Along with this set of slides, a mini activity book can be completed individually or as a whole class—the perfect two resources to start their phonics journey. Designed and created by a teacher, these resources have been created with young learners at the forefront of the design process. The bright, fun, simple layout will accompany your wicked teaching skills!

There are many ways you can add to these resources to make them more tactile for your learners. Why not provide them with playdough buttons as they are guided through decomposing the different words?

AI, AY and A_E Digraphs

In this resource, students will be learning different ways the long ‘a’ sound can be represented. Here are some word lists for each of the three graphemes:

ai (diphthong) – train, rain, pain
ay (diphthong) – play, say, day
a_e (magic e) – cake, take, lake

Download These Digraph Teaching Resources Today!

Use the dropdown menu to choose between the Google Slide or PowerPoint version of the teaching slides and the easy-to-print PDF or editable Google Slide version of the mini book.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a Teach Starter collaborator.

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Curriculum

AC9E1LY11

Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and blend these to read one- and two-syllable words
AC9E2LY10

Use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter/s) matches, including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, consonant clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllables, including compound words

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