Phonics eBook Story for Long A Vowel Sound + Spelling Activities and

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Preschool, Grade 1, 2

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Activities

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About This Product

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!

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.

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

More About Clever Speller, Story Based Learning

Breathe life into spelling with this unique story based approach that makes learning to spell easy and fun. Beautifully illustrated phonics picture books are full of words that highlight the many different ways a focus sound can be spelled, making the journey from hearing sounds in words, to knowing all the ways to spell them, clear and easy to understand.

Clever Speller is different. No other spelling resource features full length picture books with all the ways to spell a focus sound in the same story. Whole language and phonics work together, to present a perfect mix of old and new that will gain, and keep, student’s attention. 

Clever Speller applies the rigour of phonics, in the context of whole language, to make sense of crazy English spelling and bring it to life. Traditional picture book style stories showing all the ways to spell a focus sound enable a seamless progression from phonemic awareness to phonics knowledge. Colourful characters and interesting adventures engage and enthral students so that learning to spell, and read, is an enjoyable experience for all.

Benefits:

  • Develop phonemic awareness

  • Provide context for phonics to make sense

  • Provide rigour for whole language to be effective

  • Easily learn grapheme phoneme correspondence

  • Enhance retention and recall

  • Save time with planning

  • Cater for different learning styles

  • Differentiate for learning variability

  • Complement any spelling methodology

  • Bridge the gap between leveled readers and authentic texts

  • Engage students with connected and meaningful activities

  • Integrate reading and spelling lessons

Features

  • Decodable sound phonics picture books for the short and long vowel sounds

  • 1 book for each short and long vowel sound

  • 73 ways to spell 10 long and short vowel sounds

  • Over 1000 focus sound spelling words

  • Graphemes printed in different color for easy decoding

  • Grapheme charts and word family lists

  • Spelling and integrated cross curricular activities

  • Literal and inferential reading comprehension

  • Homophones, homonyms and homographs

  • High frequency/sight words grouped by focus sounds

  • Printable activities and resources

Resource Tags

phonics ebook phonics story Long A spelling Long A word families explicit phonics learn to spell in context contextual learning story based learning

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