Free printable vowel team — ai phonics worksheets. Five practice activities: decodable passage, word sort, phrasing cards, rapid naming chart, and word search.
A free illustrated mini-book for Vowel Team — AI, plus the same story as a passage sheet for highlighting.
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Hope wanted to make Mom a nice plate. She laid a plain white plate on her bench and set out five pots of paint. "I will paint a big red rose on it," she said.
But Hope had a long tail, and it liked to swish. Each time she bent in close, her tail swished into the wet paint. Soon there were red blots all over the plate.
Hope tried to hold her tail still. She pressed it down with her back leg. She sat on it. Each plan failed. The tail just slid out and swished again. "This is a pain," she said, and she felt glum.
Then Hope had a plan. If her tail would not stop, she could put it to work! Hope washed the plate in the sink, and the mess went down the drain. She dipped the tip of her tail in green paint. Swish, swish! Long green lines of grass grew up from the base of the plate. Then she used a brush to dab on a red rose.
When Mom came home, Hope held up the plate. "You made this?" Mom asked.
"I had help from my tail," Hope said with a grin.
Mom smiled. "It looks like grass after a rain. It is better than any plate I have paid for," she said. She put it on a nail by the door, right where the sun could shine on it.
Use ai in the middle of a word. Use ay at the end of a word.
Print it full size for the wall, or smaller for a phonics notebook.
The words this story set practices, in the two groups used by the word sort.
rain, main, pain, gain, fail, jail, mail, nail, sail, tail
zain, vaim, baif, taip, jaid, naig
AI and AY words to read, match and write, with pictures. Each PDF has its answer key on page 2.
All 196 vowel team worksheets in one file, with answer keys.
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Cut-apart word cards to sort: Real Words or Nonsense Words. Answer key on page 2.
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A new decodable story with the same vowel team — ai sounds — each comes with its own set of worksheets.
These free long a (ai) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the AI vowel team (long A sound). Activities include a decodable passage embedding target words in a fun story, a word sort activity to distinguish real and nonsense words, phrasing practice cards for fluency building, and a rapid naming (RAN) chart for automaticity. Each worksheet prints cleanly on standard US Letter paper.
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