Long Vowel a 'a_e' Circle the Pictures Worksheet
Children find the long a 'a_e' pictures among sixteen and circle them: cake, candy cane, plane, cage, stage, lake, gate and space.
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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 sound box words together. Name every picture aloud and circle the ones with the long a 'a_e' sound; leave the others.
Materials needed
- Pencil or crayon
Extension activities
- 1Write the circled words
- 2Draw your own 'a_e' picture
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Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
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