Short vowels a, e, i, o, u

Grade K · Day 36 · Alpha-Phonics Lesson 15 · p.22 · 25.0 min · continued · teacher edition of the student sheet

Read these · 40 words

bad
bed
bag
beg
hat
hen
pan
pen
sat
set
Nat
net
ban
Ben
bat
bet
pat
pet
pack
peck
dad
deck
tack
Ted
hack
ham
hem
Dan
den
lag
leg
lack
let
ran
red
bid
big
hit
pin
sit

◆ 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

bad
bed
bag
beg
hat

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.