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The Short A Sounds Like

The document provides instructions and examples for teaching short vowel sounds and tongue twisters to a student. It includes: 1) An explanation of the short a sound and the key word "cat" to demonstrate it. 2) A list of tongue twisters using mainly short vowels for the student to practice, with the reward of repeating them quickly. 3) A note saying the teacher can help with non-short vowel words in boldface but nothing else. 4) A list of example three-letter short vowel words, especially for the short a sound.

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The Short A Sounds Like

The document provides instructions and examples for teaching short vowel sounds and tongue twisters to a student. It includes: 1) An explanation of the short a sound and the key word "cat" to demonstrate it. 2) A list of tongue twisters using mainly short vowels for the student to practice, with the reward of repeating them quickly. 3) A note saying the teacher can help with non-short vowel words in boldface but nothing else. 4) A list of example three-letter short vowel words, especially for the short a sound.

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The short a sounds like (short a), (short a). The key word for short a is cat.

To create the
short a sound we need to lift the middle of the tongue and push it forward and into our
bottom teeth a little bit. short a is a pretty forceful sound; we use a lot of muscle in our
mouth to create it. Try saying the sound alone. (short a). Now say our key word, cat. (short
a, cat)
CURRICULUM MONDAY -- SHORT VOWELS AND TONGUE
TWISTERS
So he just knows how to read short vowel words? No problem. There's still so much he can read.
That is fun. And silly.
Here are a few tongue twisters below I made up that use mostly short vowels. (Okay, so I copied a
few of them.) The object is not to help him -- at all. The reward for him once he conquers the words is
to get to say the tongue twister over and over -- the faster, the better. Add some acting to it or some
running or hopping -- it's amazing how much more fun reading is when you get to hop and run and do
skits, right?

NOTE: A) Okay, you can help with the non-short vowel words that are in boldface, but nothing nothing
nothing else. B) Periodically I will offer other tongue twisters for other phonic skills.

1. The bass with a bad back Dad whacked with a bat.
2. Will the vet get that pet into a net? Not yet.
3. How many cans can a canner can
If a canner can can cans?
4. Did Mick quick-kick sick Rick?
5. The duck ducks under a dock.
6. If a fat cat pats a rat,
Can the fat rat pat the cat back?
7. Of all the felt I ever felt
I never felt a piece of felt
That felt the same as that felt
When I first felt felt.


List of Short Vowel Words
Words with only three letters are the easiest to make the short vowel sound out of, due to the fact
that only having three letters typically doesnt allow for a second vowel to force the long vowel
sound. An obvious example of the exception would be words like bee or tea. These words use a
second vowel to force the long vowel sound from the first one, while other words like ant or mat
use the placement of consonants to force a short vowel sound. Some other three-lettered words
that are considered short vowel words are:
Short a Words
act, apt, ask, bat, bad, bag, cat, cap, cab, dad, dab, Dan, fan, fat, fad, gap, gab, gal, gas, ham, has,
had, hat, jab, jam, lab, lad, lag, lap, man, mad, mat, map, nap, pan, Pam, pad, pal, ran, ram, rag,
rat, Sam, sad, sag, sat, sap, tab, tan, tad, tag, tap, van, vat, yam, zap

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