Spelling Worksheets for Long A Phonics Word Work No Prep Printable Activities

70 story based learning spelling activities to learn 9 ways the Long A sound in words can be spelled. No prep printable worksheets ready for your word work, literacy centres, morning routines, spelling program, ESL, revision or homework. Differentiated word lists cater to a range of ability from Kindergarten to Year 2. Your students will easily learn to hear sounds in words and know all the ways to spell them. Aligns to any curriculum.
These Activities Will Help Students to Develop Skills in:
Understanding that sounds are represented by various letter combinations
Using sound letter knowledge to read familiar and unfamiliar words
Using words in everyday writing to show comprehension and context
Applying letter sound knowledge to spell familiar and unfamiliar words
Making new words by changing the first letter or letters
Building vocabulary
Recognising rhyme
Recognising and understanding homophones
What is Included
61 Long A Word Family Activities
Finding Long A: find the list words in the story
Meaningful Words: write the meaning of the list words in the story context
Writing Long A: combine list words to create a short story or paragraph
More Long A Words: find more words with the same Long A grapheme
Rhyming Long A: highlight words with the same end sound
Onset: change the first letter or letters to make new words, answers included
5 Long A Activities
Homophones: write meanings and sentences for each pair of homophones
Find All the Words: underline all the words in the story with a Long A sound
Missing Letters: fill in the missing Long A letters for each word
Choose the Letters: fill in the missing Long A letters in a story context
Word Family Sorting: sorting words into 9 word families
3 Sight Words Activities
Sight Words Sorting: sorting sight words into word families and analysis
Sight Words Matching: cloze activity with sight words
Sight Words Practice: check lists sorted according to Long A word family
2 More Ways to Spell Long A
7 More Ways to Spell Long A: Vocabulary Challenge
16 Ways to Spell Long A: Words and Picture Chart
4 Teacher Resources
Long A Story: Baby Jake’s Birthday, 2 versions one with all black text and one with Long A words printed in green
Complete Word List, 103 Long A Words
Spelling Group Lists: 11 differentiated lists
’a’: 2 levels,
’a_e’: 4 levels, ’
ai’: 2 levels,
’ay’: 2 levels,
’Unusual Ways’: 1 level
Chart: 9 Ways to Spell Long A