Free printable vowel team — ay 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 — AY, plus the same story as a passage sheet for highlighting.
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Today was Jay's birthday. All Jay wanted to do was play. He ran out to the grass with a big grin. Dad had a plan for the day. He set up a spot for new grass stuff and put down some hay.
Jay saw the hay and had a new way to play. He grabbed the hose. "I will spray the hay!" he yelled.
But then, Jay saw a small, gray cat. It was a stray. It sat in the hay and looked very sad.
"Oh no," said Jay. "I will not spray you." He put the hose down. "Will you stay with me?"
The small cat did not run away. It just sat still. Jay asked his dad for help. Dad gave Jay a small dish of milk to lay by the cat. The stray cat had it all up.
Jay smiled. "May he stay, Dad? This is the best birthday!"
Use ai in the middle of a word. Use ay at the end of a word.
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The words this story set practices, in the two groups used by the word sort.
bay, day, hay, jay, lay, may, pay, ray, say, way
zay, vay, glay, snay, blay, chay
AI and AY words to read, match and write, with pictures. Each PDF has its answer key on page 2.
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4 ready-to-print PDFs for this story's vowel team — ay words. Each one opens as its own file.
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 — ay sounds — each comes with its own set of worksheets.
These free long a (ay) worksheets provide structured phonics practice for the AY vowel team (long A sound, word-final). 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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