For the next 2 weeks we are looking at the long vowel sound ‘a’. We have looked at 5 ways to make this phoneme: ‘a-e’ as in cake, ‘ay’ as in day, ‘ai’ as in rain, ‘ey’ as in they and ‘ea’ as in great.

Can you find other words with the long ‘a’ sound? Is it always made using the letters above?

We are also making sure we can spell and correctly use ‘their’ and ‘which’. We know these words are homophones (sound the same but have different meaning and spelling) and are practicing putting the correct ones in our writing. We are also looking at words ‘solid’ and ‘liquid’.

Can you find any other homophones? Can you find examples of ‘their’ and ‘which’ used incorrectly?