Teachers R US: ai, ay Picture Sort

Are you looking for an activity that will keep your entire class engaged? This activity helps your students to learn ai, ay while working with each other.

Before using this activity, I like to use my ai ay picture and word sort or ai ay word sort. This will give students the opportunity to practice with the skill before giving them just the pictures.

When I do this activity, I will first start by placing the ai and ay in a pocket chart. I will place them in a way that will allow them to be categorized. Then I will show the pictures and ask students which category the picture should go under. I make sure that all of the pictures go under the correct category. The next thing I do is take all of the pictures out of the pocket chart and give one card to each student. I will then call one student at a time to come put the picture under the correct category. I like doing my lesson in this order because it gives students the opportunity to work with me before I have them try to figure it out on their own.

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This activity comes with:

Picture Sort and Worksheet

Students sort pictures by ai and ay. Then try to spell out each picture on a marker board.
Picture sort comes in color and black and white
Worksheet: students will read the words, cut out the pictures, and glue them next to its word.
This activity covers 33 ai and ay words

Black and White Word Cards

-I made a card for every ai and ay word used in this activity. You can either send the cards home or create games using the cards like Memory or Go Fish.

Lesson Plan

-I created a lesson plan that could be used for this literacy activity. The lesson plan comes with common core state standards, and ideas on how to use this activity.

Video Ideas and Books that Teach AI and AY

-I wrote down videos that cover ai and ay. I also wrote down books that you can read that will help emphasize on ai and ay.

Here is an example on how to use this activity: I play several games with word cards as a whole group. The main games that I play that my students love is mingle and 2 circle game. Mingle is where you give each student a card. You start the game by saying “mingle”. Students will walk around the room until you say stop. When you say stop, students are to find the closest person to them to partner up with. They read their card to them and then switch cards. I repeat this game until students lose interest. The 2 circle game is where I have students get into 2 circles (an inner and outer circle). When they get into their circle they make sure that they have a partner that faces them. Students read their card to their partner and switch cards. Then I have the inner circle move to the right one time. Continue to do this until students have made a complete circle.