Letter+A+ELA

Over the course of the year, we are going to talk about the alphabet, the sounds the letters make, and how to listen for them in the words we use.

There are 26 letters in the alphabet, 5 of them are vowels (they letters in orange). The letters are...



That's a lot of letters to take in at once so we are going to go over a new letter each week, starting with the vowels.

The first letter is...



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This week we are going to talk about the letter A

The letter A is made with 3 straight lines.



The letter A makes the /a/ sound.

Things like .... all have the /a/ sound in their name.

Apple

Axe

Animals





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(show two objects to students, have each student point/eye gaze/etc to item that has the /a/ sound)