Teach your child the phoneme ai by going through the ai lesson assigned to your child on Bug Club. Make sure they sing the alphabet song first.
Read the words aim, main, rain, wait.
Practise spelling the words wait, pain & bait. Notice that the ai digraph is written in the middle of the word.
Teach your child that ay also says ai.
Find the lesson ay on Bug Club that has been assigned to your child and go through the lesson.
Tell your child the rule for spelling words containing the ay digraph is that it comes at the end of a word like in play, or say. Do the rest of the Bug Club lesson ay.
As well as the words on Bug Club practise reading the following words: day, play may, spray, stray, delay.As well as the words on Bug Club practise segmenting the words for spelling and write the words stay, tray, clay, pray, play.
Ask your child to read the sentence: The dog may play in the rain in the day.Ask your child to write: The dog will play in the rain.
Practise reading the days of the week.