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Cats: Short a Vowel Sound for Beginning Readers and ESL

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Ages 5-7
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Students will learn to read the short /a/ vowel as they practice beginning phonics and spelling skills. Children will learn and have fun as they play games to read and spell words, sing a song and read a story.
Average rating:
5.0
Number of reviews:
(8 reviews)

Live video meetings
Meets once
2-4 learners per class
30 min

What's included

1 live meeting
30 mins in-class hours

Class Experience

US Grade Pre-Kindergarten - 1
This single class is designed for young emergent readers. The story is about cats snuggling in different places around the house, and has colorful and engaging photo illustrations.  All resources and activities are online, so students can clearly see the text and visuals. I adapt my teaching to meet the need of my learners, so each session is unique to that group. 

In this class students will…
• Sing a warm-up song to introduce the topic and vocabulary.
• Play a word-reading game with fun visuals and sound effects
• Read a short story focusing on the target phonics skill.
• Use the whiteboard to write words with the target sound

If your child has a small whiteboard, please have it ready (with a marker and eraser) for a spelling game. If you do not have a whiteboard, don't worry. We can play the game another way.

The activities align with the 1st and 2nd grade Common Core standards:

Consonant sounds
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3.a

Short vowel sounds
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3.b

Segment sounds
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2.d
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2.c

Compare sounds in words
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3.d
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2.d

Blend sounds to read words
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2.b

Sight words
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.3.g


Fluency
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.4

Learning Goals

Read words  with the short /a/ sound in isolation
Read short /a/ words within the context of a sentence

Other Details

Supply List
If your child has a small whiteboard, please have it ready (with a marker and eraser) for a spelling game. If you do not have a whiteboard, don't worry. We can play the game another way.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Meet the teacher

Joined May, 2024
5.0
8reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Georgia Teaching Certificate in Elementary Education
I am an American educator with almost 30 years experience teaching students from around the world, in both brick and mortar classrooms and online. I have an MA in Early Childhood Education and a Georgia state teaching license in Elementary Education and ESOL.  

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