-ay Word Family

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective

Students will read and use -ay family words to build phonics and fluency.

Vocabulary

day, play, stay, tray, gray, away

Teaching Notes

• Blend onsets with -ay.
• Read the story aloud and highlight -ay words.
• Practice onset-rime segmentation with students.

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🧒 Student Worksheet

Helping Material

Reading Story with Word Family

We play all day in the gray sky. I stay and lay my tray away. The sun will say goodbye soon. Birds fly away to find a new bay. It’s a happy and fun play day.

Word Play

ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay

Word Family to Learn

, , , , ,

Sentences to Fill In

We all in the sky.

I and lay my .

The sun will say goodbye soon.

Birds fly to find a new bay.

It’s a happy and fun .

Activities

• Act out or illustrate the story.
• Write two new sentences with -ay words.

Games

• “Missing Letter”: fill in the hidden onsets in Word Play.
• “Speed Build”: say each full word out loud after filling in.

Reflection

• My favorite -ay word today is:
• Now make your own sentence using some of the -ay words you learned.