Are you ready to help your students gain confidence and grow as readers? This resource allows you to easily prep everything you need to gather data, differentiate, and support your students in their journey as beginning readers.

These LONG A decodable reader books, fluency passages, running records & activities are an excellent addition to any classroom learning how to decode a_e, ai, and ay.

✼ The three LONG A stories include:

A_E:

• "Dave and Jake"
• ae words included: Dave, Jake, came, cake, lake, game, face, cave, flame

AI:

• "Gail Can Sail"
• ai words included: Gail, sail, rain, wait, hail, laid, pail

AY:

• "Jay and May Play"
• ay words included: Jay, May, playing, day, today, tray, bay, rays, clay

✼ This resource can be used for:

• Small Groups/Guided Reading
• Literacy Centers
• Running Records
• Fluency Practice
• Reading Homework
• Reading Assessments
• Interventions
• Special Education
• EL Students

✼ EACH story in this resource includes:

1. A running record you can use to assess your students

2. A decodable reader book with a cover and decodable pages (print/copy on both sides to make books smaller and use less paper)

3. Four additional activities that can be added to the decodable book

• ”Let’s Practice” Word List
• Smiley Face Fluency Practice
• Labeling Pictures
• Comprehension Questions

4. A decodable reading passage

5. Comprehension questions & labeling activities for the fluency passage

6. Teacher word cards with the phonics pattern and trickier words from the decodable reader

7. A word sort

✼ Differentiate and make this resource fit YOUR students’ needs!

• You can break up the book/lesson over multiple days if needed. For example, on day one you could use the teacher cards to introduce the words, have students complete the word sort, and practice reading the words. On day two students could read the story, label the pictures, and do comprehension questions.
• Some weeks it may be easier to use the reading passage, others you may prefer to use the book.
• If you feel the fluency smiley faces, comprehension questions or labeling are too much for a particular group of students – simply don’t add those pages to the decodable book.
• Students can highlight the phonics skill they are practicing in the decodable.
• Have students color the pictures before or after reading.

✼ How to Assess Using Seesaw

• Take a picture or screenshot of the reading passage and upload it to Seesaw. Students can record themselves reading the passage and you can use the running record to assess their reading.

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