Strengthen early reading skills with this engaging set of long a CVCe word activities designed as supplemental resources to support explicit phonics instruction and decoding.

This resource provides students with repeated, meaningful practice with long a words through a variety of hands-on and no-prep activities. Each activity reinforces sound-letter connections while supporting students as they decode, encode, and work with words in multiple ways.

Students will practice blending, segmenting, and manipulating sounds while building confidence and fluency with long a words.

✨ What’s Included:

• Find and Write (word search + picture match)
• Roll and Read (real vs. nonsense words)
• Read and Write (sentence writing)
• Spin and Write (spelling +writing)
• Word Hunt (decoding + spelling)
• Word Hunt Recording Sheet
• Word Chains (sound manipulation)
• Mixed and Fixed (spelling + decoding)
• Long A Instructional Slides for modeling and guided practice

💡 Skills Supported:
• Long a vowel sound recognition
• CVCe decoding and encoding
• Phoneme segmentation and blending
• Phoneme substitution and manipulation
• Real vs. nonsense word reading

Perfect for centers, small groups, intervention, or additional practice alongside your core phonics instruction.