Long a homonyms

Grade K · Day 129 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 81 · p.90 · 25.0 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 40 words

face
vale
main
ache
ale
pain
way
dare
flame
rain
Jay
mail
take
ail
plate
cage
brave
brain
grade
ate
hate
raid
space
gate
cake
quake
scrape
day
trail
paid
fake
age
chair
stain
play
wait
care
made
tail
brake

◆ marks a word that does NOT follow today's pattern — Blumenfeld boxes these on the page. Teach it by heart; do not let the class sound it out and lose faith in the rule.

Write what you hear

face
vale
main
ache
ale

Say the word, have them repeat it, count the sounds on fingers, THEN write. The count is what stops a child writing the first letter and guessing the rest.