Initial consonants S, m, h, s, t

Grade K · Day 4 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 2 · p.4 · 25.0 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Build the word

S  →  am  →  Sam
m  →  an  →  man
h  →  as  →  has
s  →  at  →  sat
t  →  ax  →  tax

Read these · 2 words

Sam
tax

◆ marks a word that does NOT follow today's pattern — Blumenfeld boxes these on the page. Teach it by heart; do not let the class sound it out and lose faith in the rule.

Write what you hear

Sam
tax

Say the word, have them repeat it, count the sounds on fingers, THEN write. The count is what stops a child writing the first letter and guessing the rest.