Teaching spelling generalisations: Sail away slide outlines

1. Teaching spelling generalisations: ‘Sail away’ – ai/ay for a long ‘a’ sound

Extract from a Literacy Hub professional learning webinar.

2. Literacy Hub phonics progression

[Image: Screenshot of Phase 11 of the Literacy Hub phonics progression: Phonic knowledge and word recognition level 5/6. The table shows four columns within the phase. The first column is labelled Letter–sound correspondences and the four rows beneath the heading show ai, ay (which is circled); ee; oa, ow; and igh. The second column is labelled Letter-sound skills, and the text reads: Read and spell one- and two-syllable words using new and known letter–sound correspondences. Phase 11 example words: snail, play, speech, gumtree, float, snow, midnight. The third column is labelled Morphology, and the text within this column reads: Suffix -ed (past tense verb). The fourth column is labelled Irregular words, and the words listed are: their, all, does, goes.]

3. Phonics lesson slides: Spelling generalisations for letter–sound correspondences ai ay

[Image: Screenshot shows 23 slides from the slide deck for the phonics lesson teaching the ai and ay letter–sound correspondences, using the Sail away heading to teach these sounds. The progression of slides uses the ‘I do, We do, You do’ phases of instruction, and guides students to build knowledge through working with individual words through to sentence work. The lesson also covers the irregular word: their. Five of the slides have a red star indicating the webinar presenters will elaborate further on these slides.]

4. Sail away

[Image: Slide 1 of the Sail away slide deck. Text reads: I do … Sail away; ai ai ai, ay ay ay.]

5. Sail away

[Image: Slide 2 of the Sail away slide deck. Text reads: We do … Sail away; ai ai ai, ay ay ay.]

6. Sail away

[Image: Slide 6 of the Sail away slide deck: We do … ‘hail’.]

7. Sail away

[Image: Slide 7 of the Sail away slide deck: We do … ‘hail’, ‘ray’.]

8.Sail away

[Image: Slide 12 of the Sail away slide deck: We do … infographic of a rain cloud, indicating the word to be practised by students is ‘rain’.]

9. Sail away

[Image: Slide 18 of the Sail away slide deck: We do … There was a snail in the mail.]

10. Sail away

[Image: Slide 20 of the Sail away slide deck. We do … infographic of a pencil, indicating students will next have a sentence dictated to them for them to write.]

11. Sail away student worksheet

[Image: Screenshot of the Literacy Hub Phonics lesson student worksheet for the letter–sound correspondence ai ay. Sections include letter and sound practice (ai, ay), words to read (ray, pain, brain), words to write, irregular word practice (their), and sentence dictation.]

12. Daily review slides – ai/ay

[Image: Five slides from the phonics lesson daily review for the ai/ay letter–sound correspondence. Slide 1: What sound? ai. Slide 2: What sound? ay. Slide 3: Say these words with me. What’s the word? Your turn. Say the sounds. What word? pain. Slide 4: May gets a train to the bay. Slide 5: Dictation sentence. The dictation sentence is written beneath the slide: The snail made a trail.]

13. Other spelling patterns that can be taught in the same way

Sail away – ai/ay (Phase 11)

Boat is slow – oa/ow (Phase 11)

Boil the toy – oi/oy (Phase 14)

Loud cow – ou/ow (Phase 14)

Sauce on a prawn – au/aw (Phase 19)