Long A Phonics Activities - Spelling Letter Pattern 'a-e' - Worksheets Flashcards

Spelling worksheets and phonics activities for the a_e letter pattern in Long A vowel sound words. Activities include classic spelling contract, make a mini book, find the words in a picture, match words and pictures, rhyming, find the words in the story, vocabulary extension, book marks to make, manipulative phoneme cards, word and picture cards, ideas for hands on activities and assessment.

Often referred to as ‘magic e’ or ‘bossy e’, this grapheme is one of the most common ways to spell the Long A vowel sound in words. These activities provide opportunities for students to develop phonological awareness and phonemic awareness and easily learn spelling patterns and rules, (phonics).

This pack of no prep worksheets is based on 4 differentiated word lists, with all words from the included Long A phonics story ‘Baby Jake’s Birthday’. There are 3 levelled lists of 10 words each plus a list of ‘sight words’. A variety of levelled activities make it easy to cater for a range of learning stages and differentiate for your students individual learning needs and interests.

Contents
Information:
About this resource
About Story Based Learning
4 Word Lists
3 levels, 10 words in each list
1 list of 9 sight words
Baby Jake’s Birthday: Story on a Page**
2 copies of Phonics Story with 103 Long A Words showing 9 different ways to spell the Long A vowel sound.
Version 1 all text in black
Version 2 Long A words printed in green
4 My Words To Learn
List of Long A words to learn, Look Cover Write Check
3 levels plus sight words
4 Spelling Contracts
Spelling activities for workbooks
Write the word to match the picture worksheet
3 Mini Books
Write words and draw pictures to make a mini book
3 Words in a Picture
Find where all the Long A words belong on the picture
3 Match Words and Pictures
Use as individual activities or laminate for re-use
2 copies: Colour and Black and White
4 Rhyming Long A
Highlight the rhyming Long A words in the table
Finding Long A
Find the Long A words in the story
Underline the Long A letters
Vocabulary Extension
Find more a_e Long A words
How many other sounds do the graphemes represent
Answer guide
Book Marks
Bookmarks for easy reference
Word Cards
Plain black text
Coloured Long A graphemes with pictures
Phoneme Cards
Cut out and combine the phonemes to make words
Activity Ideas
Practical ideas to teach and reinforce phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence
Assessment
Dictation
Spelling
Phonics