Phonics - Learning split digraph a-e

This week we have been learning our new Year 1 phonics song. Today we learnt our first split digraph, a-e. We learnt that the a and e have to work together to make the long vowel sound a. BUT we also learnt they have to be split up and can not be next to each other. We made a human a-e and children worked together to hold hands to make the a-e sound but made sure there was a gap between them and they were ‘split’. We then had a go at making words that contain the split digraph a-e sound. When we write split digraphs and add sound buttons, we draw a banana under to link the letters.