adventure in the attic

Objective

Associate the uppercase letter A and lowercase letter a with the short /a/ sound as in ant, cat, and animal.

 

See Standards

Lesson Plan

See More

Target Words:

  • ant
  • attic
  • apple
  • athlete
  • adventure

Materials:

  • Picture cards*
  • Word cards*
  • Word blending cards*
  • Writing practice page*

*Items included below.

State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will go on an adventure in an attic and then practice saying the short /a/ sound in words that start with the letter A, such as adventure, astronaut, actor, acrobat, and apple.

Literacy Activities
Go on an adventure in the attic

  • Write the uppercase A and lowercase a on the board and tell the children that the letter A sometimes makes the /a/ sound like in the word apple.
  • Have the children practice writing the letter in the air while they produce the /a/ sound.
  • Hide the picture cards around the room.
  • Tell the children they will pretend to go on an adventure in an attic (explain that an attic is a storage room at the top of some houses).
  • Allow the children to search for the picture cards that start with the /a/ sound and tape them to the letter A written on the board.
  • Repeat the activity using word cards.
  • Have the children circle the letter A on the word cards and help them read the words as needed.

More Practice
Identify, blend, and manipulate sounds

  • With word blending cards, have the children make new words by changing the vowel or either of the consonants:
    • Change the beginning sound: pat → mat; ran → fan
    • Change the ending sound: man → mat; bat → bag
    • Change the middle sound: sat → set; pan → pen; pat → pot; lag → log

Write the target letter

  • Help the children write the uppercase letter A and the lowercase letter a on the writing practice page.
  • Allow the children to draw pictures of things that start with the /a/ sound in the space below the letters (e.g., apple, ant, animal).

Printouts

SEEL At Home

See More
Print

Objective
Associate the uppercase letter A and lowercase letter a with the short a sound as in mat, cat, and sat.

Materials

  • Picture cards

Activity: Act out the Action

  • Help your child write the uppercase A and lowercase a and point out that the letter A sometimes makes the /a/ sound like in at.
  • Hide the picture cards around the room.
  • Allow your child to pretend to go on an adventure in an attic as he or she searches for the picture cards. 
  • Have your child tape the picture cards to the letter A that your child wrote, saying the /a/ sound each time he or she adds a picture to the A.

Picture Cards

Standards

See More

1. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1.D: Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters in the alphabet.
2. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.A: Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.

http://education.byu.edu/seel/library/