Word searches are great activities and help kids develop spelling, problem-solving, and analytical skills. AT family words in this puzzle: fat, sat, cat, hat, mat, pat, bat.

Model how to say the short ‘a’ sound in isolation and in words; have students practice saying the sound.
Ask the class to brainstorm words that begin with the short ‘a’ sound such as “apple” and “alligator;” have them brainstorm CVC words that contain the short ‘a’ sound such as “hat” and “cap;” use their ideas to create an anchor chart they can refer to.
Use word families to reinforce the short ‘a’ sound; ask students to generate a list of words from the “at” or “ad” family such as “bat” or “had”.
Provide practice activities such as circling all the pictures that contain the short ‘a’ sound.
Word searches are great activities and help kids develop spelling, problem-solving, and analytical skills. AT family words in this puzzle: fat, sat, cat, hat, mat, pat, bat.
Word searches are great activities and help kids develop spelling, problem-solving, and analytical skills. AP family words in this puzzle: wrap, map, nap, tap, clap, gap, trap.
Word searches are great activities and help kids develop spelling, problem-solving, and analytical skills. AB family words in this puzzle: stab, cab, lab, dab, tab, crab, gab.
Word searches are great activities and help kids develop spelling, problem-solving, and analytical skills. AG family words in this puzzle: sag, wag, flag, tag, stag, rag, drag.
Word searches are great activities and help kids develop spelling, problem-solving, and analytical skills. AD family words in this puzzle: glad, sad, bad, mad, dad, pad, lad.
Word searches are great activities and help kids develop spelling, problem-solving, and analytical skills. AM family words in this puzzle: tram, jam, swam, yam, ram, clam, slam.
Word searches are great activities and help kids develop spelling, problem-solving, and analytical skills. AN family words in this puzzle: scan, fan, plan, man, van, ran, can.
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