This interactive phonics PowerPoint will help you to explicitly teach the short vowel sound a through the use of interactive phonics activities. This /a/ phoneme phonics lesson PowerPoint will help to show you how to teach phonics step by step for the /a/ phoneme.
Over 500 slides are included with a range of phonics activities with a-sound words and sentences. It will help to support your short vowel phoneme lessons and is designed to include everything you need to explicitly teach the /a/ phoneme with Grade 1, 2, or 3 students.
This PowerPoint is also included in a bundle with other phonemes.
This Powerpoint contains over 500 slides with a learning progression that includes:
- Introduction to metalanguage (including phoneme, grapheme, digraph, split digraph, trigraph, quadgraph, long vowel, short vowel)
- Interactive activities (spin a sound, thumbs up/thumbs down, which spelling looks correct?)
- Word blending using all the main spelling options for the /a/ phoneme
- Find the pattern- discover when to use different /a/ graphemes
- High-frequency word focus
- Decodable sentences (using the target phoneme and high-frequency words)
- Find the missing sound- select the correct grapheme choice
- Phoneme Boxes- segmenting words into each sound
- Trash or Treasure- real and nonsense decodable words
- Sentence Doctor- edit the sentences to fix the spelling mistakes
These slideshows can be inserted into any synthetic phonics program. You can cut/paste slides to suit your lesson needs. Each slideshow is designed to be used over a few weeks to introduce, teach and reinforce each set of sounds. Students use whiteboards to record sounds, words and sentences and more.
EASY NAVIGATION
There is a hyperlinked Contents Slide which helps you to easily navigate to each section. Each slide also contains a Home button to return you to the Contents.
EDITABLE SLIDES
The following activities also contain editable blank slides for you to create your own additional slides:
- Thumbs Up Thumbs Down - which word is spelled correctly?
- Thumbs Up Thumbs Down - is this the correct spelling?
- Trash or Treasure- real and nonsense decodable words
- Sentence Doctor- edit the sentences to fix the spelling mistakes
For more information on how to use these resources, download your free copy of the Phonics & Beeyond handbook. You can access the first chapter here: Phonics & Beeyond handbook or you can download the full free version at mrslearningbee.com