Teaching spelling generalisations: sail away – ai/ay for long a sound
Watch this video of a literacy specialist explaining how to teach the spelling generalisation known as sail away. This spelling generalisation explains the letter-sound correspondences ai and ay making the long a sound.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation, Year 1, Year 2
- Purpose
- Professional learning
- Topic
- Systematic Synthetic Phonics
- Audience
- Teachers, School leaders
- Format
- Video
- Learning area
- English
- General capabilities
- Literacy
- Publisher
Literacy Hub
- Copyright
© Commonwealth of Australia
- Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
- APST 3.2: Plan, structure and sequence learning programs, APST 3.3: Use teaching strategies
- Keywords
- digraph, letter-sound correspondences, phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, spelling generalisations, vowels
