Year 2Trigraphs
air words
The letters a, i and r work together to make the /air/ sound.
air/air/ as in fairy
Words with air
Tap a word to see its sounds and hear it.
air in the middle
air at the end
Read air in a sentence.
Every sentence is checked against the sound.
- 1The fairy has hair.
- 2Fix the chair upstairs.
- 3My hair is in the air.
- 4The chair is on the stairs.
How to teach air
- Introduce the vowel trigraph. Explain that a vowel trigraph is three letters that work together to make one sound.
- Model saying the target phoneme three times.
- Students repeat.
- Check articulation and correct mouth placement.
- Identify the phoneme in the example words.
Other ways to spell /air/
- are
- ear
- ere
Decodable stories with air.
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Make a whole air lesson.
Slides, words and sentences, matched to the sounds your class has learned.