Short A worksheets and Videos

Finally, after much work – taping, editing, making worksheets, etc -we are finally going to start posting our phonics videos and worksheets on the site.  My goal is to have all the vowels up by April 1.  Most of them have been uploaded to our youtube channel already, but, I have been waiting to put everything up on this site as we finalized everything.  ANYWAY,  Here are the Short a worksheets and videos to explicitly teach phonics and the short a sound.

Learn to read: Short A Videos to explicitly teach phonics

Short a worksheets and videos

We have provided the short ‘a’ and long ‘a’ worksheets for free to you.  For the other vowels, we have them all in our store for a small fee… to help us keep the site up and running somehow.  Regardless, the videos are here for you to help your children learn to read!  We have two different types of worksheets within our phonics workbook.  All of the worksheets have words to sound out with your children, and for the children to write as they sound out each word.  Some of the worksheets have a sentence at the bottom, whereas others just have words to sound out.  Mrs. Karle always wrote sentences with her students to teach them the proper technique when writing a sentence:  Starts with a capital letter, and ends with a period, or question mark, etc.  Additionally, the sentences use many different sight words, and they help the students learn to read/write/spell tricky words.     We also have worksheets with words that the students can trace to further help the child learn to read, write and spell.  The worksheets that do not have the sentences included are intended to go a little bit more in depth to help the struggling reader/writer/speller.  We have an additional page with the sentence included so that these struggling readers also learn about sentences and sight words.   If you get through the first few pages and your child really understands reading, writing and spelling this phonics skill, – then you may not want to do the last few pages of the short ‘a’ sound.  If, however, you feel your child needs more practice -then, we made extra videos and worksheets that take things more slowly to really help a struggling student.  I had a struggling reader, and these videos have helped TREMENDOUSLY to teach and guide her to sounding out words.   However you use these worksheets and videos, Mrs. Karle encourages you to either chorally in a classroom of children, or, one on one with a child, sound out each word and write each word with the child, showing them what to do and say.  She found so much success with struggling (and non-struggling) readers because she was slow, repetitive, and guided them every step of the way.   So….here you have it – Mrs. Karle teaching the short ‘a’ sound.

 

Free worksheets to teach the short a sound

Mrs. Karle teaching Page 1 – cat/man/hat/back – with a sentence that follows. 
Mrs. Karle teaching Page 2 – can/black/and/am – with a sentence that follows. 
Mrs. Karle teaching page 3 – hat/hand/after/that -with a sentence that follows.
Mrs. Karle teaching cat/grass/man/hand/and/am on page 4.  This page was meant for struggling readers who many need more help sounding out and hearing the short a sound.  The next video shows the sentence that goes with this worksheet.  
This is page 4(b) – it is the sentence that goes with the pictures from page 4.  This sentence is intended to help a struggling reader get extra practice.  
This is page 5 – Mrs. Karle is teaching the short a sounds can/rabbit/back/black/and/that.  This page was meant for struggling readers who many need more help sounding out and hearing the short a sound.  The next video shows the sentence that goes with this worksheet.  
This is page 5(b) – it is the sentence that goes with the pictures from page 5.  This sentence is intended to help a struggling reader get extra practice.  
Here is page 6 of the phonics worksheets:  Mrs. Karle is teaching hat/basket/cap/wagon/after/that – In many ways, these short ‘a’ words are quite challenging for any reader -great practice!
This is page 6(b) – it is the sentence that goes with the pictures from page 6.  This sentence is intended to help a struggling reader get extra practice.  

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Madreen Karle is a master first grade reading teacher with over 30 years of classroom experience. She taught reading in a special needs and English as a Second Language classroom. After retiring she wrote a reading program to help others learn how to teach reading. She is a trusted educator and author of 5 books to help teach children to read and write. In addition to her books, she is a mentor for 3 websites that give reading teacher tips (Mrs. Karle’s Sight and Sound ReadingMrs. Karle’s Reading Patch, and Mrs. Karle’s Handwriting Patch). Through her teaching she learned that confidence was the key to learning to read. A child who is not confident at reading does not like to read and struggles to read. Mrs. Karle created “sunshine moments” to help teach children how to grow their confidence and learn to read.
Meeghan Karle Mousaw (Madreen’s daughter) has her Master’s in Special Education. She has 8 years experience teaching children to read online. In addition, she developed a curriculum to teach children handwriting called The Handwriting Patch. With the Handwriting Patch learning is fun because children learn to draw and learn handwriting at the same time. In 2019 The Handwriting Patch curriculum became an amazon best seller the first year it was released, helping thousands of kids learn handwriting with a unique, fun method. She is mom to 6 kids, each with differently learning abilities and struggles.
The Reading Patch was established by the creators of Mrs. Karle’s Sight and Sound Reading. Together they have been featured on the NBC media outlets and Parents Magazine online. Over the last 8 years in their online platform, Madreen and Meeghan have worked tirelessly with teachers, homeschoolers and parents looking to help children learn to read to become a trusted authority in teaching children to read and advocating early literacy skills. They often partner with other educational experts to deliver the most current information to the Reading Patch community.

2 Comments

  1. I cannot find the free worksheets to go along with the vowel “a” videos. I have followed the links, which only lead me to your online digital store…which have no links to the free worksheets, only the purchase packs. Could you point me in the right direction? Thanks much!

    1. Yes, I will! Sorry about that…They used to be somewhere and I changed some things. I will get them in the morning for you… I’ll let you know when it is live! thanks for letting me know I had an issue.

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