Train Trip To The Bay
Vowel Team Series, Book 1: /ā/ - ai & ay
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5.0 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Do you ever wonder how to teach students when to use ai or ay or 'a consonant e' (a-e) when spelling words or how to differentiate between homophones while spelling, e.g., plain vs. plane? This book helps students who struggle with spelling confusing long vowel spelling patterns to learn spellings by associating focus words to a fun storyline.
Train Trip To The Bay is the story of Fay, a young girl who takes the train to visit her friend, Den the Donkey, for a picnic at the bay. She has a few escapades on her way, but she reaches there safe and has a great day with her friend.
Train Trip To The Bay is a decodable resource that focuses on 83 common words that use the ai and ay spelling patterns for the long sound of a /ā/. It is the first book in the Vowel Team Series. The book has been carefully authored to ensure that words with the long a sound /ā/ using spelling patterns other than the ai and ay, spelling patterns are NOT included in this book. This step has been taken to avoid confusion while students are becoming familiar with the focus words in this story.
The books in the vowel team series have been developed to help students with orthographic mapping of focus words. Every book in this Vowel Team Series focuses on one or two related vowel teams. It includes multiple target words spelled with the same spelling pattern that students of school age will encounter during reading and spelling.
Students with learning difficulties who struggle to differentiate the multiple spelling patterns of long vowel sounds will benefit from using this book. The intention is for children to associate the focus words with the story and subsequently become fluent in encoding and decoding those words.
The books come with educator resources that can be used in conjunction with this book to reinforce the spelling patterns covered in each book.
Customer Reviews
Amazing !!
These books were an absolute game changer !! My daughter who has been diagnosed with Autism and mild intellectual disability has improved so much since Zahra started giving her MSL sessions and introducing her books in a very entertaining way that encouraged her to read and write !!
My daughter has shown a significant improvement in her reading and writing skills in a short period of time !!!
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Making life easier for dyslexia
I love the way that you have broken the words down into syllables. Many children with dyslexia have difficulty using their auditory discrimination skills to listen to syllables, so the way that they are visually presented here, I believe will be very helpful.
I particularly love the way that you use colour to accentuate the visual patterns of the phonics. This is wonderful to help children’s visual memory, so they can transfer this knowledge to both reading and spelling experiences.
The way that you have taught suffixes
through the story will be very useful to me, as this is what we are working on at the moment.
The graphics are colourful and simple, I’m sure the animations will appeal to children whose attention can be easily distracted.
The use of environmental print, for example “train station” encourages children to be aware of print in everyday life.
I’m liking the integrated way that irregular words are used at the bottom of the page, this enables a teacher or parent to play matching games, or simple identification in games like eye spy.
The display of words before the story begins, allows the adult to practice some rapid naming speed games with children, and it also allows for them to gain exposure of the words before, during and after reading. The printable games that you offer at the end, I’m sure will be excellent in reinforcing the ai, ay sounds.
The suggestions that you have made to help children spell and read successfully, in a clear and integrated way for busy carers is commendable.
Excellent book!
This is a great book! My girl loved all the animations. The syllable division and word split suggestions at the bottom of each page is extremely useful . Helps with confusion between similar sounding words. Looking forward to reading the next books in the series.