{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": [
    "LearningResource",
    "Dataset"
  ],
  "@id": "https://printablescholar.com/data/phonics/vowel-team-ai.json",
  "name": "Long A (ai) Worksheets",
  "description": "Free printable long a (ai) worksheets for 1st and 2nd grade. Includes a decodable reading passage, word sort, phrasing practice cards, and rapid naming chart. Aligned to Science of Reading scope and sequence. Download print-ready PDFs instantly.",
  "url": "https://printablescholar.com/phonics-worksheets/vowel-team-ai/",
  "license": "https://printablescholar.com/methodology/",
  "isAccessibleForFree": true,
  "inLanguage": "en-US",
  "dateModified": "2026-05-21",
  "creator": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "@id": "https://printablescholar.com/#org",
    "name": "Printable Scholar",
    "url": "https://printablescholar.com"
  },
  "author": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "@id": "https://printablescholar.com/about/#emma",
    "name": "Emma Reed",
    "jobTitle": "Editorial Lead"
  },
  "educationalLevel": [
    "Grade 1",
    "Grade 2"
  ],
  "learningResourceType": [
    "DecodableText",
    "Worksheet",
    "AssessmentResource"
  ],
  "teaches": {
    "@type": "DefinedTerm",
    "name": "Vowel Team \u2014 AI",
    "description": "AI vowel team (long A sound)",
    "inDefinedTermSet": "Science of Reading \u2014 systematic phonics scope and sequence"
  },
  "educationalAlignment": [
    {
      "@type": "AlignmentObject",
      "alignmentType": "teaches",
      "educationalFramework": "Science of Reading (National Reading Panel, Reading Rockets, IDA)",
      "targetName": "Vowel Team \u2014 AI phonics pattern"
    }
  ],
  "variableMeasured": [
    "target_words",
    "sight_words",
    "decodable_passage",
    "word_sort_cards",
    "phrasing_cards",
    "rapid_naming_chart"
  ],
  "skill": {
    "id": "vowel-team-ai",
    "label": "Long A (ai) Worksheets",
    "skill_name": "Vowel Team \u2014 AI",
    "pattern": "AI vowel team (long A sound)",
    "phase": 4,
    "phase_label": "Vowel Teams & Advanced",
    "grade": "1st-2nd",
    "target_keyword": "long a ai worksheets"
  },
  "target_words": [
    "rain",
    "main",
    "pain",
    "gain",
    "fail",
    "jail",
    "mail",
    "nail",
    "sail",
    "tail",
    "paid",
    "laid",
    "maid",
    "paint",
    "faint",
    "train",
    "brain",
    "chain",
    "drain",
    "plain"
  ],
  "sight_words": [
    "the",
    "is",
    "a",
    "and",
    "to",
    "was",
    "it",
    "she",
    "he",
    "they",
    "said",
    "have",
    "with",
    "you",
    "are",
    "be"
  ],
  "decodable_passage": {
    "title": "Pip's Rainy Train",
    "text": "Pip had a train. He did want to play with it today. But it did rain! The main path was wet. \"My train can not run in the rain,\" Pip said. He had a faint look on his face.\n\nPip saw a big, plain box. He took the box. He made a new track for his train. The train could run on this track. It could gain fast. Pip did not want his train to fail. He set the box on the rug. The train ran fast on its new track. Pip did not get any pain. He had fun with his train, safe from the rain.",
    "highlight_instruction": "Circle or highlight all the AI vowel team words in the story above. How many did you find?"
  },
  "word_sort": {
    "categories": [
      "Real Words",
      "Nonsense Words"
    ],
    "words": [
      {
        "word": "rain",
        "category": "Real Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "main",
        "category": "Real Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "pain",
        "category": "Real Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "gain",
        "category": "Real Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "fail",
        "category": "Real Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "jail",
        "category": "Real Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "mail",
        "category": "Real Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "nail",
        "category": "Real Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "sail",
        "category": "Real Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "tail",
        "category": "Real Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "maix",
        "category": "Nonsense Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "baix",
        "category": "Nonsense Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "naix",
        "category": "Nonsense Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "taix",
        "category": "Nonsense Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "paix",
        "category": "Nonsense Words"
      },
      {
        "word": "jaix",
        "category": "Nonsense Words"
      }
    ]
  },
  "phrasing_cards": [],
  "rapid_naming_chart": {}
}