![]() ![]() Sort it Out: After introducing the A Team Cheerleaders with the Phonics Friends (above) you and your students use the cards to discuss where the ai/ay sound is within the words. Details are included on the lesson plans. Each day is broken down by whole group (direct teach and guided), independent practice, word work (center), and home connection. Ok, let’s look at the individual components for each specific day. The daily focuses are: sound isolation, blend phonemes, segment phonemes, phoneme manipulation, and phoneme deletion. There’s a different focus each day with the Phonemic Awareness cards. The Phonemic Awareness cards can be attached to a metal ring and hung on an easel, board, or wherever you will be completing you whole group lessons at. You can display the Word Cards on an anchor chart or on a whiteboard by placing magnetic tape to the back. ![]() Word Cards and Phonemic Awareness Warm Ups can also be used daily during the ai/ay lessons. ![]() Really play it up when you introduce the friends and sound…bring in pompoms, your best cheer face, say AAAAAYYYYY, and get super duper excited! How fun would a classroom transformation be for this week of learning! Football and cheerleader themed! The A Team friends help students remember the ai/ay sound and that the two vowels work together as a team to make the long a sound. I used them on the 1st day to introduce the sound/spelling rule and then I used it every day after that when starting our phonics time. You can display them on your board to reference to during the daily lesson. The A Team Cheerleaders Phonics Friends are an anchor for Long A Vowel Teams/Pairs ai ay learning. Here’s a look a full week (5 days) of teaching ai/ay! I wanted to make sure there was more than enough ways to practice each sound/skill included in these resources.Īlright, now let’s really get started. I understand that everyone’s schedule and allotted phonics time varies so please use these how you need and don’t feel like you have to use it front to back. As always, you know your classroom and student’s needs best so I always recommend that you use Phonics Friends in a way that works best for you and your students! If that means use it front to back, great….or if that means pick and choose, then that is great, too. LONG A VOWEL TEAMS AI AY PHONICS ACTIVITIES AND GAMESīefore starting, I want to let y’all know that the weekly and daily lesson plans that are included within Phonics Friends are simply a guide…and ideas. GAME CHANGER in my room years ago! I wanted to share one of my newer ones with y’all: The A Team Cheerleaders! They help teach about the long a (ai ay) sound and spelling skill. Have you tried Phonics Friends yet? If you aren’t familiar with them you can read about them here. ![]()
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