Long Vowel a 'ay' Cut and Paste Worksheet
Children practise the long a spelling 'ay' by finding the six pictures that have it: pray, tray, pay, play, day and clay.
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Phonics Level 3 Long Vowels Activity Book for Kindergarten & 1st Grade
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How to use this worksheet
Read the words in the sound box together. Cut out the eight pictures along the dashed line, say each name and paste the six 'ay' pictures into the boxes. Leave out the bus and frog.
Materials needed
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Pencil
Extension activities
- 1Write a sentence with two 'ay' words
- 2Find more 'ay' words in a book
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
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