Children continue to memorize and recognize familiar words. Seeing, reading, and remembering the most common words used in grade-level texts is essential to their reading skills in the future.
Below are some long a words with various spelling patterns generally taught and mastered in the first grade. Finding different ways to practice these will ensure students can quickly and easily recognize these word patterns when they encounter them.Â
Long a Words
The long a word list includes the following words:
| ace | daze | lair | save | wain | gray |
| acorn | drake | lake | scale | wait | hay |
| age | drape | lame | scrape | wake | Jay |
| air | equate | lane | shade | wane | lay |
| ale | face | late | shade | waste | May |
| alien | fade | mace | shame | wave | nay |
| ape | fair | made | shape | whale | okay |
| ate | fake | make | shave | bail | pay |
| awake | fame | male | skate | fail | play |
| bade | fate | mane | slain | hail | pray |
| bait | faze | mate | slave | jail | ray |
| bake | flake | maze | snail | afraid | say |
| bale | flame | nail | snake | aim | slay |
| bane | frail | name | space | braid | spray |
| base | frame | nape | spade | brain | stay |
| baste | gage | pace | sprain | complain | stray |
| blade | gait | page | stage | drain | sway |
| blame | gale | pair | stair | grain | tray |
| blaze | game | pale | stake | laid | way |
| brace | gape | pane | stale | maid | eight |
| brake | gate | paper | state | freight | |
| brave | gave | paste | stave | main | neigh |
| cage | gaze | pave | strain | paid | neighbor |
| cake | glade | place | strait | pail | reign |
| cake | glaze | plane | tail | pain | sleigh |
| cane | grace | plate | take | plain | weigh |
| cape | grade | quail | tale | raid | grey |
| case | grape | quake | tame | rain | hey |
| cave | grate | race | tape | raise | obey |
| chain | grave | rage | taste | Spain | prey |
| chase | graze | rail | Tate | stain | survey |
| crane | hale | rake | trace | trail | they |
| crate | haste | rate | trade | vain | gauge |
| crave | hate | rave | train | bay | kale |
| craze | haze | raze | trait | bray | vale |
| dale | jade | sage | vane | clay | Yale |
| dame | Jake | sail | vase | cray | bate |
| Dane | Jane | sale | wade | crayon | sate |
| date | Kate | same | wage | crayon | babe |
| Dave | lace | sane | wail | fray |
Closing
Teaching these words can be done in a variety of creative ways like word hunts, memory games, activity mats, and tracing sheets. No matter how they learn them, these words will increase their confidence and reading skills, and set them up for reading success.
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