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Using Starfall to Review the Short A Sound
Students read a story with the short a sound. The story is about a rat. They access Starfall and select the story called Zac the Rat. They read the story out loud as a group then the students answer comprehension and skill questions...
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Short A and Short O
In this short a and short o worksheet, students match pictures to words that have the short a and short o in them. Students complete 15 matches total.
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Short a - Rhyming Words
In this short a rhyming practice worksheet, students study the 28 examples of words that feature the short a sound and that rhyme.
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1st Grade Spelling: Short "a"
In this 1st grade home connection spelling practice worksheet, 1st graders examine 6 spelling words that feature the short "a" sound. Students write the words 1 time each.
National Institute for Literacy
Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling
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.
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: Short /u/ Sound Words
From hugs to the sun, you can find many great words with the short /u/ sound! Your youngsters will do just that with this worksheet, in which they identify words with the short /u/ sound from a selection of provided images, and then...
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Rhyming Words: Fox and Socks
What rhymes with the word fox? Actually there are quite a few words that contain the short o vowel sound and rhyme with fox. Pre-readers find, color, and circle the objects in the picture that rhyme with the sly looking fox. They also...
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Vowel Sounds -- Short Aa Words
In this short a word search worksheet, students locate and circle the 20 word that have short a in them in the word search puzzle.
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Vowel Sounds-- Short Aa Words
In this short A word worksheet, students unscramble 20 words. Students will write the three letter word on the line. There is a word bank to help clue students.
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Vocabulary Building: Short a
In this short a worksheet, students write 6 short a words as they are called out, unscramble them and use the words in sentences.
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Vocabulary Building: Short a
In this short a worksheet, students write words as they are called out, unscramble words, then use the words in sentences.
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Reading Words With Short Vowel Sounds
While just a two-slide review of words with short vowel sounds, this resource could be a good tool to use in a kindergarten classroom. It provides a quick review of simple decoding skills in a visually-appealing manner. There are twelve...
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Blast-Off to Blending
Practice working with different phonemes in consonants and vowels. Sounds are written on squares that get put on a rocket to "blast off" and meet other sounds. The teacher first models blending, then reads the new words. Young readers...
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Short I Vowel Sound
In this vowel sound worksheet, 1st graders study the pictures on the right and draw a line from the pictures of India to the words that share a short 'i' vowel sound.
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Vocabulary Building Activity - Short a Words
In this vocabulary building activity, 1st graders write a list of 5 short a words as the teacher dictates them. They unscramble the words and complete an "Eagle Eye" activity. They examine a vocabulary word and a list of words that...
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Mini-Book of Words With Short A
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.
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Vocabulary Building Activity (Short A Words)
For this short A word vocabulary building worksheet, students study the 6 words in a word bank. Students unscramble the words, then use each in a sentence.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Surprise!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Surprise! is the theme of a unit covering such topics as consonants, blending, short vowels sounds, high frequency words, and number words. The unit's lessons also include teachable moments covering story structure, illustrations,...
Lakeshore Learning
Alphabet Sounds Teaching Tubs
A hands-on activity brings the alphabet to life in your kindergarten! Fill tubs with items that begin with the same letter or end with the same sound, and let kids make the connections between the items.
Curated OER
"Name Those Vowels"
Help your class recognize the capital and lower-case forms of the five vowels. They will learn how to make capital and lower-case forms of the vowels and all the rules surrounding vowels. Fun songs and activities are included. Links to...
Progressive Phonics
Short Vowel “A”
Support your phonics instruction with this beginner reading book that focuses on the short vowel /a/. The book is divided into four chapters based on the word families at, ad, an, and am. Letters and words used are c, a, t, s, m, n,...
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Word Washer Vowels
Here is a perfect activity for all your kinesthetic learners. They practice long and short vowel discrimination as they hang out the paper articles of clothing on a clothes line. They each take turns pulling word clothes out of a pretend...
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A-Okay
Learners distinguish between short and long vowel /a/ sounds. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. Then they practice identifying words with the...
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Odd One Out
There is one object that doesn't belong in each of these sets. Scholars circle the one that doesn't rhyme, listening for the /o/ vowel sound (long and short) in the others. They connect two of the objects to printing practice,...