Short A Words And Long A Words. Word searches with long and short A words turn an educational lesson into a game. Call attention to the short a in pan and the long a in cakes.
Student directions, recording sheet, and answer key I put all the a vowel words in a bag and students sorted by short a and long a. In this worksheet your child will draw a rectangle around the words that have a long A sound and an oval around the words that have a short A sound. Some words that end in voiced consonants like BAD, LAND, HAM and RAG are often pronounced [aː].
The English vowels are A, E, I, O, & U. (Sometimes Y is a vowel, pronounced as if it were I.
Student directions, recording sheet, and answer key I put all the a vowel words in a bag and students sorted by short a and long a.
A word doesn't necessarily have to have three letters to be a short vowel word, but it makes for the easiest example and three-lettered words make up the bulk of any list of short vowel words. Word searches with long and short A words turn an educational lesson into a game. The best way to identify the use of a long and short a vowel is to say the word aloud to yourself and ask yourself if the vowel sound is the same as the.