common spellings are spellings which appear frequently

has a letter that comes between the two letters in a digraph like in "make" where the "k" separates the digraph "ae"

the letter or group of letters that represent a sound

The ‘ay' spellings, including ‘ay', ‘ai' and ‘a-e'

English

In this unit, pupils learn new GPCs for long vowels.  In ‘Year 2: 'Alternative GPCS for consonants and homophones’, pupils learn new GPCs for consonants.

In this unit, pupils learn new GPCs (grapheme phoneme correspondences) for long vowel sounds.

Alternative GPCs for long vowels

Spell the word that matches the picture. You can catch a __________.

Choose the 'ay' sound spellings that match to the words.

Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence. Please **tayk** a ball from the pile.

Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence. In art lessons, I like to **paynt**.

Correct the spelling in bold in the following sentence. I hope you are feeling **okai**.

Match the grapheme to where they commonly appear in a word.

Match each word to the number of phonemes it contains.

How many syllables in the word **playing**?

Choose two more spellings that can also represent the sound '**ay**', like in st**ay**.

Choose the correct spelling of the word to complete this sentence. The children went outside to __________.

Choose **two** words that rhyme with the word **cake**.

a letter, or group of letters, that represent a phoneme

a type of grapheme where two letters represent one phoneme

Starter Quiz