All the stories in this book introduce words that contain long vowel sounds Long vowel sounds are represented in English in several different ways These stories include the most common ways to spell them This story focuses on words with the long a, sound spelled with the vowel teams ai and ay the letter a ending an open syllable or the letter a and a magic e Vowel team ai Used at the beginning or middle of a syllable and often followed by the letters or n snail rain Vowel team ay Used at the end of a syllable play day crayon Letter a ending an open syllable An open syllable is one that ends with a single vowel table bacon basic Letter a with a magic e The magic e which occurs at the end of a word is silent and indicates that the previous vowel is pronounced with a long sound cake grape paste Magic e was first introduced in Book 3 For a list of long a words including all the ones used in this story go to megandgregbooks.com 10
3 4 Train Day A story featuring the long vowel sound wave a travel case backpack 11 long a
Chapter 1 Train to Cascade Springs Meg stood on her tiptoes I can see the train coming Meg and her mom April were waiting with Greg and Rocket at Ashton's train station Whoo-whoo Wow That was loud Greg said covering his ears Rocket wagged his tail as the train chugged into the station Greg turned to April Thank you for inviting Rocket and me on holiday with you and Meg It's our pleasure Greg April replied Meg clapped her hands I'm excited to see Mount Cascade Me too Greg said And it's exciting that we're going by train 12 long a
train train Yes I trains That's lucky We are going to be on this train all day long April can you take a snapshot of us to send to my mom and dad Fun Perhaps you can make an album of the holiday Rocket You bet 13 long a Click
