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Grade 2 Reading & Writing · World 2: Vowel Team Valley · Level 9
ai and ay
Rain, play: ai in the middle, ay at the end.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 9
- When two vowels go walking, the first one often does the talking! In ai and ay, you hear the long a sound.
- Rain has the long a sound, spelled a i.
- ai usually goes in the middle of a word, like rain. ay usually goes at the end, like play.
- Your turn! Spell snail.
- Now sort these words by their spelling.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 2.F.P.1.b — Identify and produce both long and short vowel sounds for A, E, I, O, U, including final -e, vowel digraphs, r-controlled vowels, and diphthongs.