Word building with short a; consonant l

Grade K · Day 11 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 7 · p.8 · 25.0 min · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 13 words

an
and
hand
land
sand
Dan
Dad
had
Sam
Max
Tad
tax
wax

◆ 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.

Read the sentences

Write what you hear

an
and
hand
land
sand

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.