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📖 1st Grade · ELARF.1.3cUnit 7: Vowel teams & r-controlled vowels

ai and ay

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🎯 Objective: Students read and spell long a vowel teams.

Lesson outline

  1. Teach: ai in the middle (rain), ay at the end (play).
  2. Sort words by position.
  3. Read sentences.
  4. Exit: spell rain and play.

Lesson 1 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RF.1.3c

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Read common vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, ow)
  • Read r-controlled vowels (ar, or, er, ir, ur)

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Short & long vowels, blends📚 All 1st Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Vowel teams & r-controlled vowels”

  1. ai and ay
  2. ee and ea
  3. oa, ow and igh
  4. Bossy r: ar and or
  5. er, ir, ur
  6. Vowel review games

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