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Today I’m sharing a free long a game. It’s perfect for kids learning to read or spell words with ai, ay, and a-consonant-e.

It's a free long a game! Print this set of 24 matching pairs to help your child learn to read and spell the long a words.

This summer, I’ve been doing learning time with each of our big kids (ages 3, 5, 6, and 8) five days a week.  By building it into our days it’s actually getting done – most of the time! Of course, it also helps that I’ve created a incentive chart.  When each child has enough learning sessions to color to the top of the chart, we schedule a visit to our favorite ice cream place.

It’s all about priorities. 🙂

It's a free long a game! Print this set of 24 matching pairs to help your child learn to read and spell the long a words.

This game for reviewing long a patterns (ay, ai, and a-e) is a memory game – sometimes called Concentration.

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It's a free long a game! Print this set of 24 matching pairs to help your child learn to read and spell the long a words.

To prepare:

  1. Print pages 2-9 on cardstock.  Be sure to print front to back so you’ll get that fun red polka dot pattern on the back of the cards.
  2. Laminate the sheets (we love our awesome home laminator), and cut the cards apart with a paper cutter.

To play:

  1. Choose the pairs you’d like to play with (there are 24 pairs total).  Then mix them up and put the cards face down in rows.
  2. Take turns looking for a match.  If you find one, keep the cards in your “win pile.”
  3. Whoever has the most cards when all the cards have been claimed, wins!

It's a free long a game! Print this set of 24 matching pairs to help your child learn to read and spell the long a words.

Sometimes we’d turn over two words or two pictures.  And it took quite a few false matches until we started finding pairs.

It's a free long a game! Print this set of 24 matching pairs to help your child learn to read and spell the long a words.

This game is a great review of those tricky long a patterns (a-e, ai, and ay).  With lots of exposure to the words, your child is more likely to remember their spellings. (This would also be a great game for kids learning to read words with long a!)

It's a free long a game! Print this set of 24 matching pairs to help your child learn to read and spell the long a words.

It was a close call, but my son beat me by a few matches. 🙂

*Remember to print pages 2-9 front to back if you want the polka dot background. If not, just print the even numbered pages.

P.S. While I’m trying to make many of my new spelling games also available in black and white, I didn’t have black line clip art for all of these images.  You are welcome to print in grayscale. 🙂

YOU’LL LOVE THIS PRACTICAL BOOK!

Looking for an easy-to-read guide to help you reach all readers? If you teach kindergarten through third grade, this is the book for you. Get practical ideas and lesson plan templates that you can implement tomorrow!

GET YOUR COPY TODAY!

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7 Comments

  1. tanya

    March 26, 2019 at 1:36 pm

    Thank you. My kids are going to love this!

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    • Anna G

      April 20, 2019 at 9:58 am

      You’re welcome, Tanya!

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  2. Jinnie G

    September 11, 2018 at 8:36 am

    You are the best!!!!!!?

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    • Anna G

      September 13, 2018 at 5:12 pm

      Thank you for your kind words!

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  3. Michelle

    June 27, 2015 at 10:13 am

    Wow, this is such a cute printable and I love the idea of my kids playing games to learn patterns in words rather than just doing worksheets or flashcards. Spelling can be so hard! I’m going to start homeschooling my kindergartner in the fall and your blog looks like it’s going to be an AMAZING resource.

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    • Anna Geiger

      July 10, 2015 at 4:53 pm

      Hi Michelle! Congratulations on the beginning of your homeschooling journey! I agree, spelling instrction is so much more fun (and effective!) with games instead of worksheets. I hope you keep finding things here you can use. 🙂

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