Primary Phonics - Alternative Spellings for 'ai' - Table Worksheet

Why should children practice alternative spellings for 'ai'?

Help your children to practice the alternative spellings for 'ai' with this fantastic alternative spelling for 'ai' worksheet! 

Children can use the visual cues on the alternative spelling for 'ai' worksheet to fill in the missing words next to each picture. This activity will help build children's confidence when it comes to writing words that have similar sounds, but different spellings. 

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This alternative spelling for 'ai' worksheet is a great resource to use at home too. Simply print out the worksheet and send it home as part of children's phonics homework. This way, parents and carers can work with their child to help their understanding. Alternatively, the worksheet can be used for a revision-style task at home or at school. 

Feel free to take a look at our other Phase 5 Phonics resources for other similar tasks. 

Other brilliant alternative spellings phonics resources.

If you like this alternative spellings worksheet, then we have plenty more brilliant teacher-made resources for you to choose from. Here are some of our favourites.

Our amazing Phase 5 Alternative Spellings: Best Bet Vowel Sounds Resource Pack, is absolutely jam-packed with fun and engaging resources to support your children's understanding of alternative spellings. 

We also have our Phase 5 Alternative Spelling Word Mat for you to download. Why not laminate them so that the children can use them during literacy and phonics lessons? 

You might also like this lovely ai', 'ay' and 'a-e' Sound Family Phoneme Spotter Story Worksheet. You can let children spot each of the sounds whilst they practice their reading skills! 

Did you know that we have our own systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme that is validated by the Department for Education? To find out more about Twinkl Phonics, click here. We've also created a whole-school reading scheme that has complete fidelity with our SSP programme. For more about our Rhino Readers scheme, click here. 

What is Phase 5 phonics?

Phase 5 (or Level 5) phonics introduces children to further sounds so that they can expand on the reading and writing skills they have been taught previously. This phase of phonics teaching will introduce children to alternative spellings. One example of this is the phoneme 'a' and how it can be represented by the graphemes 'ai', 'ay' or 'a-e'.

All of the phonics phases (or levels) are important as they all build children's knowledge and this allows children to further develop their abilities to correctly read and spell words.