Phonics Story for 9 Long A Word Families + Spelling Activities, Chart and Quiz

Item description

Learning to spell Long A words is fun and interesting with this engaging phonics story full of words showing how the Long A vowel sound can be spelled in 9 different ways. The story contains 103 Long A words, with the Long A letters printed in contrasting green for easy decoding. 

The storybook also includes differentiated word family lists, a reading comprehension quiz, homonyms, high frequency sight words, play based and cross curricular activities and a colouring page. Your students will easily develop phonemic awareness, learn to decode sounds in words and build knowledge of letter sound correspondence.

In this engaging story, ‘Baby Jake’s Birthday’, Jamie and Jane are in charge of the games at Baby Jake’s first birthday party. Children will love reading about the party fun while learning to spell at the same time. 

Our unique approach to phonics combines systematic spelling with story based learning to bring spelling to life and provides the context for phonics to make sense. Re-energize your students and make spelling time a happy and successful time for all!

In This Resource:

• engaging 22 page full page phonics picture book story 
• 103 Long A spelling words to learn 9 different ways the Long A sound can be spelled: ‘a’, ai’, ‘ay’, ‘a_e’, ‘ea’, ‘ei’, ‘eigh’, ‘e_e’ and ‘ey’
• word family list
• tricky words
• reading comprehension
• homonyms
• grapheme chart
• story on one page
• coloring page 
• spelling activity ideas
• cross curricula story based learning activities

Print or View

• PDF format to print as booklet or single pages, or view on any screen in single or double page format to suit

Note: 2 versions are included to accommodate differences in US and UK/Australian spelling. The following different spellings occur in the story and accompanying activity pages.

US/UK: neighbors/neighbours, favorite/favourite, labeling/labelling, coloring/colouring

Please note: these are different to decodable readers for whole words. This phonics story book focuses on decoding a focus sound. Long A letters are printed in contrasting green to scaffold and support students learning to spell.