1 Decodable Reading Passage
A short, decodable story embedding vowel team — ai words. Students read the passage then highlight all the target words.
Pam went out to get the mail. The rain stopped, but it made a big pond on the grass. Pam had a fun plan in her brain. She ran back home to make a ship.
She took a plain block of pine. Then she made a tall, white sail. She put thick, red paint on the block. Now she had a nice ship!
Pam took the ship down the main path. She was going to have fun.
"I will test it here," said Pam.
She set her ship in the pond. The ship went fast. It glided past the grass.
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2 Vowel Team — AI Words
The words this story set practices, in the two groups used by the word sort.
Real Words (10)
rain, main, pain, gain, fail, jail, mail, nail, sail, tail
Nonsense Words (6)
zain, vaim, baif, taip, jaid, naig
- Phrases to read
- rain on the train · paint the nail · a snail on the trail · wait with the mail · the main drain · he paid the maid · a plain tail · a chain on the gate · it did not fail
- RAN chart words
- rain, fail, sail, maid, brain
- Sight words
- the, is, a, and, to, was, it, she, he, they, said, have, with, you, are, be
3 AI and AY Picture Worksheets
AI and AY words to read, match and write, with pictures. Each PDF has its answer key on page 2.
Level 4 Word Work pack: all 120 vowel team worksheets in one file
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4 Story Worksheets
4 ready-to-print PDFs for this story's vowel team — ai words. Each one opens as its own file.
Word Sort
Cut-apart word cards to sort: Real Words or Nonsense Words. Answer key on page 2.
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