Phonics: Long A

On this page you'll find a large selection of worksheets, activities, and games for teaching students to read and write words with the long a vowel sound.

Cut & Glue Activities

Students will use scissors to cut out the six word boxes on the bottom of this worksheet and use a glue stick to attach them to the correct picture.

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A young girl wants to play with a horse named "Kay-Kay!" It's an 8-page easy-read book for emergent readers.

Cut out the nine word squares on the bottom and glue them in the boxes to form the words "crane" and "game".

Use this printable worksheet for your students to practice forming words with a long a sound. This worksheet features the words "skate" and "cape".

This fun cut-and-glue activity has students gluing the letter squares in boxes to form the words "gate" and "cane".

Print out the pennants on card stock paper. Have each student make one of the 13 pennants. They will color the picture, write the word, and cut it out. Fold the pennant along the line and glue it around a piece of string or rope.

Worksheets

Each of the six words on this worksheet is missing two letters. Find which letters are missing and write it in the boxes. Then rewrite the long a word on the lines.

Students will color each of the four pictures, trace the words along the dotted lines, and then write them again on the primary-ruled lines.

Can you tell which of these pictures are long a words? Find them and color only those with a long a sound in them.

Use the word bank at the top of this printable worksheet to find the correct word for each of the six pictures and write it on the ruled lines.

Color the individual letters in the words cake, game, tape, and vase. Then write each word on the line.

This phonics worksheet has rows of jumbled letters to find the long a word featured for each illustration.

Teachers will read a series of long a words and students will circle the word they hear from the selection on each line.

Students will hear their teacher read a word for each group of words and they have to circle which word they hear. Students will differentiate the long a sound between words spelled with a silent-e, an "ay", and "ai" in them.

Print out this phonics worksheet so your students can draw lines to match each picture to the correct long a word.

This worksheet is filled with primary-ruled lines so that your students can try to think up and write as many long a words as they can.

Have your students use a highlighter, bingo dabber, or crayon to color in the circles with words that have a long a sound in them.

This is a fun activity for students to do to practice learning about words with a long a sound. Students will use letter stampers to form the words in the spaces provided.

Games & Learning Centers

Use scissors to cut out the 30 cards along the dotted lines and sort the picture cards into two groups of words with a long a sound and words without.

This phonics card game has 30 print-and-cut cards to use for play and practice. Fifteen of them are long a word cards and the other fifteen are corresponding picture cards.

This printable contains 28 word cards to sort into two groups, one with a long a sound, and one without. Print this out on card stock paper so they can be used over and over.

Students will use scissors to cut apart the 25 word cards in this printable and move them around to make sentences, using at least one long a word in each one. Then they will write the sentences they make on the lined paper provided on the following pages.

This game has 30 cards, each with a long a word. Some words include: ape, made, hay, cake, way, tape, age, say, and bake.

This is fun classroom game to practice words with a long a vowel sound. Hide the fifteen cards around your classroom for your students to find.

Word Wheels, Flashcards, and Sliders

This file has over 40 long-a flashcards. All words have -ay, -a-e, or ai. Words include bake, face, train, day, and say.

Print and cut out the pirate ship-themed word slider to practice words with a long a sound. There are 3 word strips full of words to practice with.

This link will take you to a page with all sorts of worksheets and activities highlighting words with a short a vowel sound.

This phonics unit involves both short a and long a words. There are coloring worksheets, cut-and-glue worksheets, a listening activity, and more.

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