Reading For All System
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Reading For All

Level 1 — Lesson 1

Meet the Sounds
Today's Sound: Short A  /ă/ as in apple

Anchor Words

👧
Abby
/ă/ — short A
Today's Star
👦
Otto
/ŏ/ — short O
Abby's Pal

Abby helps us remember the short A sound. Listen: /ă/...Abby!

🎓 Practice Words

Tap each word. Sound it out letter by letter, then blend!

🐱 cat /k/ /ă/ /t/
🧢 hat /h/ /ă/ /t/
🪌 sat /s/ /ă/ /t/

Tap a word above to see it broken apart:

c
a
t
cat
Consonant Vowel (short A)

📚 Word Bank

All the short A words in this lesson:

cat hat sat bat mat rat fat ran nap sad mad bad had bag tag van can map tap cap

📖 Silly Story Time!

Pick words from the dropdowns to make your own silly story.
Then read it out loud!

The in the

A sat on a .

It had a and a .

A ran to the .

It sat on the and had a nap!

The ran and ran and on the .

The End!

Sight Words Used

These common words appear in the story. Practice reading them on sight!

a the on it and to