Long-A Patterns in Accented Syllables
Notice that all the words have the long sound of a. The long -a sound is in the first syllable of rainbow and in the second syllable of awake. Chocolate and again should go into the oddball column because they do not have the sound of long -a even though the last syllable has a long -a pattern.
1st
rainbow
painter
raisin
crayon
mayor
maybe
bracelet
pavement
basement
payment
2nd
awake
contain
complain
decay
mistake
parade
escape
amaze
today
explain
remain
obey
Oddball
chocolate
again
