READ/SPELL – vowel digraph ‘ai’

Reading / Spelling
  • This resource pack of 8 pages covers hearing, reading, spelling and using phonetic words with digraph ‘ai’
  • The digraph is highlighted grey and shows where ‘a’ and ‘i’ work together to make one sound (aim)
  • The same sound can also be represented by another grapheme - ‘magic e with a' (ate)
  • Both graphemes are compared and used in the activity
  • Click on the loudspeaker icon for sound
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Last updated
20th March 2026

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A little more info...

  • Vowels are the 5 letters ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, ‘u’

  • If a word is phonetic it means the word can be sounded out using the phonetic sound of individual letters, blends and digraphs

  • A grapheme is the letter or group of letters that represents one phoneme (one unit of sound).

  • All words in this activity are real English words

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