Phonics, Spelling, & Grammar Resources

Check out these must-have Long A Family Spelling Patterns Activities. We have a stack of Printables, Games, Worksheets and hands-on activities to keep learners engaged and happy. Our teaching resources are guaranteed to inspire your teaching and your students!

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Long vowel sounds are among the first reading skills to be taught in phonics-based learning programs.

Making the link between sounds and spellings can be a difficult concept to grasp. 

Teachers need to help students to understand that certain letter combinations can make a vowel short or long (such as “pin” and “pine”) and that different spelling variations can end up making the exact same sound (such as “rain” and “date”).

Unfortunately, the long  a sound can be tricky to teach because it has lots of different ways to spell it and there are eight different spelling patterns for the Long a sound.

1. a – as in baby
2. a_e – as in cake
3. ai – as in rain
4. ay – as in play
5. ei – as in vein
6. eigh – as in weigh
7. ea- as in meat
8. ey – as in they

Below you will find our library of Long A Spelling Activities.

These activities feature silent e-spelling patterns for long a words.