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Grade 1 Reading & Writing · World 1: Sound Hatch · Level 4
Short a and Short i
Read and spell words like cat and pig.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 4
- A, e, i, o, and u are vowels. Every word has one! Short a sounds like the a in apple: cat, hat, map.
- Short i sounds like the i in itch: pig, pin, lip.
- Change the vowel, and you change the word! Pan, pin. Bag, big.
- Your turn! Spell cat with the letter tiles.
- Your turn! Sort the words: short a, or short i?
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 1.F.P.1.b — Identify and produce both long and short vowel sounds for A, E, I, O, U, including final -e and vowel digraphs.
- 1.F.P.2.a — Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with a variety of spelling patterns (VC, CV, CVC, CVCe, VCC, CCVC, CVCC, CVVC, CCVCC), including high-frequency words.
- 1.F.P.3.a — Encode regularly spelled one-syllable words with a variety of spelling patterns (VC, CVC, CVCe, VCC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC), including high-frequency words.