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And a Baby Cries
Students model the sound a baby makes when it cries, saying "aaaaa". They say the word "rat" stretching out the vowel sound and look at a tongue twister for the /a/ sound; repeating it together as a class. They then practice making the...
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Crying Baby
Students practice techniques and strategies with phonics, spelling and word recognition with the sounds of /a/. They read and work on this task with the book, "Cat Nap," and the tongue twister "Alice asked if Annie's active animals were...
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Aaaaa is for Short /a/
Students identify and interpret the sound of the letter /a/ by looking at pictures and seeing if they can figure out what sound it makes. They practice writing the letter a, both upper and lower case on primary paper. Finally, students...
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To Make a Cake you must say /A/
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...