Year 2 · English · Reading
Long vowel sounds
Read and spell words with long vowel patterns: split digraphs (a-e, i-e, o-e, u-e), ai/ay, ee/ea, ou/ow, and break longer words into syllables.
Everything for this topic in one place
- 3D lesson: Long vowel sounds — Add a magic e to change words, choose ai or ay, pick see or sea, find the two sounds of ow and clap the beats in long words with Kiri.
- Teacher presentation — slides to put on the projector.
- Worksheets at three levels — Tūī (support), Kererū (core) and Kea (extension), each with an answer key on the last page.
- Online practice — assign it to your class in the Crateclass classroom and the results come back by themselves.
Written for Te Mātaiaho, Phase 1 (Years 0–3), with New Zealand places, money and native birds.
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