Alphabetic word building

Grade K · Day 9 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 5 · p.6 · 25.0 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 24 words

am
an
as
at
ax
had
ham
man
has
hat
tax
dad
dam
Dan
was
sat
wax
sad
Sam
tan
mat
Max
Tad
mad

◆ 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

am
an
as
at
ax

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.