Have your class explore the short /a/ sound. They will pronounce isolated consonant and short /a/ sounds and then blend the sounds to make a word.  An assessment sheet is provided.

Say aaaaa, because today your class will be practicing the short a vowel sound. They complete two activities. First the draw a line from the letter a to the objects that contain the medial /a/ sound. Then, they fill in the missing a to...

While just a series of slides with lists of words containing the short A sound, this resource would be a handy tool in a kindergarten or first grade classroom. You could use this resource as a quick review of this sound. This...

Emergent readers use picture clues to identify the missing word in six fill-in-the-blank sentences. This reinforces the strategy of using the pictures in stories to help define unknown vocabulary. If you have time, consider having...

Work on the short /a/ in phonics lessons. Recognize and identify "Aa," name the letter "A," know the short /a/ sound, rhyme using short /a/ word families, decode basic short consonant-vowel-consonant words and transfer wisdom of the...

In this labeling worksheet, learners will use six short /a/ words from a word bank to label the proper object on a picture of Appleland.

Learners will create a list of short vowel sound words and participate in computer phonics activities to practice. They will read an interactive storybook online. Next, they will complete words in order to better understand short vowel...

Go over digraphs, vowel sounds, and affixes with a series of decoding and spelling lessons. Each lesson guides learners through a different reading and phonics skill, building on the lesson before, and challenging them with each step.

Dazai Osamu’s short story, “A Sound of Hammering” is the focus of a three-day investigation of modern Japanese literature and life in post-World War II Japan. The events in Osamu’s story mirror those in his own life, and give a...

Animals are the theme of this series of English language development lessons. Scholars take part in grand conversations about woodland, jungle, and grassland animals. They also go on picture walks, read poems and high...

In this writing worksheet, students write the words of 6 pictures. All of the words have a short A vowel sound. Students also draw a picture using 2 of the words.

These questions are designed to accompany Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder," and could be used to guide and focus readers or as an assessment of reading skill and knowledge of the elements of a story. Page one focuses on questions of...

Long and short vowels have never been quite so colorful! Learners use an intricate key to color a grid of words based on the vowel sound they hear. Red is the long a sound, light blue is the short u sound, etc. By the time they've...

Practice the short /a/ sound with your class. To get it down, they read a short poem that supplies many examples of words that include the short /a/ sound. Once they are finished reading, learners answer three reading comprehension...

In this easy reading worksheet, students read a list of short a words and a story that includes the words. They circle the words cat, mad, hat, and sad before answering three questions about the story.

Kindergartners will cut, paste, and label the words that contain a short or long e sound. They can build their phonemic awareness as they say each word to determine which e goes where.

Friendship is the theme in this series of extra support lessons. With a variety of resources (practice worksheets, letter, word, punctuation and picture cards), young readers gain knowledge of initial consonants v and h, blending short...

In this vowels sounds worksheet, students recognize the sounds that vowels make as they read lists of 11 short a sound words, 11 long a sounds, and 11 short e sounds.

In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 6 words. All words contain the short sound of vowel A. Students write each word one time on the lines. There are additional at-home spelling activities listed.

Here is a great way for learners to practice identifying sounds made by both short and long vowels. This lesson stresses the a_e=/A/ correspondence along with letterboxes. They read their spelled words, whole text selection and...

In this short a sound activity, 1st graders say the word for each picture and circle one letter from each column for the beginning, middle, and final sound. Students then write the word in the provided space. Students read a list of...

Students recognize the difference between the short a sound and the long a sound, then compile a list of words containing short a and long a sounds.

In this phonics and spelling worksheet, students make a cut out and construct a mini-book of short a words. They work with words such as cap, can, map, and mat.

This worksheet focuses on the medial vowel sound o. Pre-readers complete two tasks to practice the short o sound. They draw a line from the letter o to pictures that contain the medial /o/ sound. They then, fill in six cvc words with the...