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Dot Marker Long A Sound Worksheets for 1st Graders

June 22, 2021
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by Beth Gorden

Help kids practice discriminating between how the long a sound is spelled in words using these super cute Long A Worksheets. Print the long a worksheets pdf vowel coloring pages to work on spelling and phonics. This long a sound words worksheet is perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too. Simply print FREE printable long a worksheet pdf file and you are ready to dab and learn!

Help kids practice discriminating between how the long a sound is spelled in words using these super cute Long A Worksheets. Print the long a worksheets pdf vowel coloring pages to work on spelling and phonics. This long a sound words worksheet is perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too. Simply print FREE printable long a worksheet pdf file and you are ready to dab and learn!

Long a Worksheets

As a child, I didn’t receive a ton of spelling instruction, and spelling has always been a struggle.  And unfortunately, I didn’t spend a ton of time working on spelling words with my two older boys….and guess what. They aren’t great spellers either. I wish I had these Long A Worksheets to help me back then. So as my twins are learning to read, we are working on spelling the words at the same time. And what I found, is that my little girl can actually read the words better when she has practiced spelling them first. Once school starts, it won’t be long till we jump into long vowels. And I want to make sure both my little man and little girl can spell them. The tricky part with the “Long A” vowel is that it can be made with a couple of different ways. Well, not only do I want my twins to be able to read long a words, but I want them to learn how to spell them.  So today I am sharing these free long a worksheets for spelling long a words with “ay” vs “ai”. Plus these spelling worksheets are extra fun for kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students because they use bingo markers. We LOVE dot marker worksheets for making learning extra fun with do a dot markers.

Long a Worksheets pdf

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____ <<. The pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the template and print the pages. Print off the pack for this fun, no prep spelling activity for 1st graders.

Long Vowel A Do a Dot Printables

Long a Worksheet

You can use these long a vowel printables as a coloring pages where you color the images that spell the long a sound like the featured a, ai, or ay OR you can simply use them with do a dot markers (also known as do a dot markers, bingo daubers, or bingo markers) for a no prep phonics activity for grade 1.

long vowel ay

Free long a worksheets

Before you begin this activity, it is important that your little ones have spelled the words out.

Here are some words they could work on:  aid, ail, aim, bail, bait, braid, chain, claim, drain, fail, faint, frail, gain, hail, mail, nail, paid, pail, rain, tail, train, and wait.

Then jump over to the ay words like day, away, play, stay, gray, clay, pray, tray, sway, fray, pay, ray, jay, bay, say, and hay.

You could also have your child do the Long A worksheet where they add the “ay” or “ai” to the words provided.

Long a Sound Words Worksheet

Once you have done all that, it is time to see if your kiddos can find the words that are spelled with “ay” or “ai”.  First, point to each picture on the sheet and say the word that describes the picture.

Next, have your child dot or color with crayons, markers, or colored pencils all the words that are spelled with the letters that are in the middle of the page. For example, if “ay” is on the page, they will want to dot or color pay, hay, stay, etc.

  • Ay – say, hay, stay, play, sway, stray, pay, tray, clay, day (birthday)
  • Ai – rain, pail, mail, brain, sail, paint, nail, chain, braid, tail

And that’s it. It is a simple way for your young ones to practice what words use “ai” vs “ay”.

When your first grader student is ready to move on to long vowel sounds, you will love this handy vowel activity. This long a sound words worksheet uses letter tiles for a hands-on long vowel activity  for grade 1. Simply print long a sound words pdf file and you are ready to play and learn! Practice vowel team "ai" with this fun no-prep game long a game. This free printable phonics game helps first graders work on ai words. Children work their way around the game board as they read ai sound words. Simply download pdf file with words with ai in them and you are ready to play and learn!  Help children get the practice they need with spelling long a words with these super cute, free printable clip cards for kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students.  identifying long and short vowel sounds worksheets pdf

Long vowel sounds worksheets

Looking for more practice with the long a sound? Check out these free printables:

Help kids be better at spelling difficult words with this free spelling dictionary! Printthe pdf file with the spelling dictionary for kids. Children will now have their own handy spelling printable to reference commonly misspelled words and add their own words to the word bank. This is a fantastic reference took to allow students to reference the spelling of words right at their fingertips. This spelling dictionary printable is super handy for first graders, 2nd graders, 3rd graders, 4th graders, and 5th grade students. Super cute, FREE printable FLOSS Rule worksheet are a fun way for first grade and 2nd graders to improve their spelling. Simply print pdf file with floss rule worksheet free and you are ready to learn this spelling rule.

Spelling Activities

Looking for more fun, clever spelling games and free spelling worksheets? You will love these resources:

Vowel Puzzles FREE Missing Vowels Clip Cards - Help kids fill in the missing letters and practice phonics with Missing Vowels Clip Cards - a fun, hands-on learning activity for prek & kindergartners. These super cute sliders are a fun, effecitve way for first grade and 2nd grade students to learn irregular vowels. Children will have fun with this clever irregular verb activity and parents will love all the irregular verbs practice. Simply print pdf file with irregular verb game and you are ready to play and learn long o followed by ld, lt, and st as well as long o followed by nd and ld.

Vowels Printables

looking for more fun vowel activities and resources to make learning to read and spell words fun? Check these out!

FREE Beginning Sounds Worksheets - Prek, Kinderarten, and first grade students will have fun practicing identifying beginning sounds of alphabet letters with this fun, NO PREP, phonics activities #phonics #beginingsounds #kindergartenBingo Marker Alphabet Letter FindFREE Addition Tic Tac Toe FREE Do a Dot Worksheets Numbers 1-12 - kids will have fun using bingo daubers to practice counting and forming numbers to 12 with these math worksheets for toddler, preschool, prek, and kindergarten age kids #bingodauber #preschool #numberworksheets

Do Marker Worksheets

Looking for more activities to try with your do a dot printables? You will love these free worksheets:

cooking up rhymes do a dot printables endangered animals dot marker printables landforms for kid do a dot printables Make learning trigraphs fun with these free trigraph worksheets that students will complete with bingo daubers! Your first grade and 2nd grade students will have fun completing these phonics worksheets to improve reading and spelling using these do a dot printables to work on trigraphs scr, shr, and squ. 

Free Dot Marker Printables

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First Grade Printables

If you have a 1st grader and you are looking for more fun, hands on grade 1 worksheets, games and activities to make learning fun – you will love these resources!

FREE Telling Time Puzzles - super cute math game to help kindergarten and first grade students learn to tell time with a clock game for kids! #mathgames #kindergarten #kindergartenmath #1stgrade #grade1math Turn practicing addition into a fun activity as children get to become detectives with these free printable Addition Crack the Code Worksheets. These are perfect for kindergarten and first grade students working on addition within 20.

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Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com

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