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Mrs. Cat is instructing Steve to write down words with the long A sound and the spelling AI. She gives examples like "afraid," "aid," and "aim." She emphasizes that Steve should only write the words, not the whole sentences. Mrs. Cat also provides sentences for Steve to write down, which include words with the long A sound and the blend sounds like PL, CL, and PR. She reminds Steve to use capital letters for proper nouns and to check his work. Hello Steve, this is your teacher, Mrs. Cat. I am going to say some words for you. Listen to the words and then write them down. Today we will work with words that have the long A sound and that have the spelling AI somewhere in the word. Okay, do you have a pencil and paper ready? If you have the pencil and paper ready, then we can begin. At any time, you can stop the recording if you need more time to write the words. Okay, ready, begin. I am going to say the words and you will write them. I will try to give you time to write them. Remember, you can always stop the recording. Here are the words, afraid, afraid, he was afraid of cats. You don't need to write the whole sentence right now. Just write the word afraid. The next word is aid, aid, this word means to help someone, aid. The next word is aim, aim. I am going to aim my camera at him. That is one way to use the word. Remember Steve, right now you do not write the sentences. Just write the word aim, okay? I'm giving examples just so maybe if you don't know the word, it will help you to remember the spelling. Okay, the next word, fail, fail. The next word, wait, wait. The next word is paint, paint. The next word is faith, faith. The next word, mail, mail. This is not the word like male and female. This is the word like email. The next word is paid, paid. The next word is nail, nail. The next word is pain, pain. This is the word like pain when you go to the doctor. The next word is sail, sail. There are a few words that sound like sail, but this is the one like when you take a boat and go for a sail. The next word is tail, tail. This is the word that means like the tail on an animal, tail. The next word is gain, gain. The next one is the name of a country, which is Spain, Spain. The next one is brain, brain. Use your brain to help you remember how to spell words, brain. And the last one is plane, plane. This is not the word like an airplane. This is the other plane, which means the opposite of fancy. When you are finished, go back and look at all of your words. Remember, these are all words that have AI. So check that you have put AI somewhere in these words. This is the long A sound that is with AI. Okay, our next audio will be sentences. But you can listen to this one again as many times as you want to check your words. Hi Steve, this is Kat. I'm going to read some sentences for you. And I want you to try to write down what you think you hear. We're going to have some long A sounds. And a lot of the words with long I have AI in them. Okay, so these are long sentences, but I will read the sentences two times slowly. Number one. The girl named Faith sent some mail to Spain. The girl named Faith sent some mail to Spain. Now remember, you can always stop and start and listen to this again. Maybe I'll read it one more time. The girl named Faith sent some mail to Spain. Number two. Don't be afraid to use your brain. Don't be afraid to use your brain. Don't be afraid to use your brain. Number three. If you use your brain, you will not fail. If you use your brain, you will not fail. If you use your brain, you will not fail. Number four. The painter painted a boat with a plain sail. The painter painted a boat with a plain sail. The painter painted a boat with a plain sail. Okay, now I'm going to do some other sentences that have some blend sounds. Blends are like P-L, C-L, P-R, F-R, S-P, S-T, like in your name. Okay, so here we go. Number five. Please clean your room with the broom. Number six. Princess Daisy was proud of her project. Okay, now please go back and look at your sentences. I will read them all one more time. Number one. The girl named Faith sent some mail to Spain. See, in that sentence, you have a person's name, Faith, and the name of a country, Spain. So make sure you use capital letters for those words. Number two. Don't be afraid to use your brain. Number three. If you use your brain, you will not fail. Now see, that sentence has a comma in it somewhere. See if you can figure out where the comma is. Number four. The painter painted a boat with a plain sail. That sentence has a lot of long A words using AI. Number five. Please clean your room with the broom. This sentence has some blends in it, like PL, CL, and BR. Number six. Princess Daisy was proud of her project. Now there are three words in this sentence that use the blend PR. PR. Make sure that you have three PR words. Okay, thank you. I will see you next time.