Curated OER
Short Vowel A: Secret Code
In this short vowels worksheet, students use the secret code box to help them spell some short "Aa" words. Students then draw a picture of the word.
Curated OER
Vowel Sounds - Short Aa Words
In this short "Aa" worksheet, 1st graders use the number code and find the letters for each number to spell out the small words. Students spell 20 words.
Curated OER
"The Scary Letter...aaaaaaaaaa!!!"
Students study the /a/ using the hand gesture and 'aaa' sound as if they were seeing a ghost. Next, they recite a tongue twister and make words using letter boxes using different numbers of phonemes. Next, they read "Pat's Jam" out loud...
Curated OER
I Love to Eat Apples!
Learners study the a=/a/ correspondence by first examining how they hold their mouths when biting into an apple. They practice the sound while reciting a tongue twister and making a gesture each time they hear the /a/. While looking at...
Curated OER
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...
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Short a Quiz
This site is an interactive quiz to assess knowledge of words that incorporate short /a/ in them. The quiz is designed to follow the "Reading Bear: short a" lesson.
St. Charles Place Education Foundation
Reading Bear: Short a Lesson
In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate short /a/. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see words...
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Cat Scat
This poem is an example of a sonnet with a rhyme scheme with the topic that shares what a cat can hear.
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: The Band: Ang
This printable consonant blends worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will write words with the consonant blend -ang to complete a short story. An answer key and lesson...
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Ann and Abe: Long a (With Silent E) and Short a Sounds
This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will find hidden pictures by identifying words that contain short /a/ and long /a/. An answer key and lesson...
Starfall
Starfall: Zac the Rat
Beginning readers can listen as they read-along with this wonderfully animated story about Zac, a rat who gets into quite a jam. Students can click on a word and it will show them how to blend the phonemes to pronounce it. It is an...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Henry and Mudge
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a reading unit on Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant from the Macmillan/McGraw reading series. Phonics lessons on short a and i. Language lessons on commands and exclamations. Reading...
ICT Games
Ict Games: Cvc Pop
An interactive game where students can practice identifying words with short vowel sounds following the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Students listen to a word and then click on all of the matching words as they float by on bubbles.