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Write the big A on the board, and ask your students to trace the letter in the air with their fingers. Tell your students the name of the letter and that it makes the sound / ă /. Have your students listen to the way you pronounce the sound / ă /. Say the sound slowly and have them watch your mouth. Repeat the procedure for little “a”. Ask your students if the little “a” makes the same sound as the big A. If students say no, repeat the activity until they figure out it’s the same sound by themselves.

Words that start with the sound / ă /:

Emphasize the beginning / ă / sound as you show them ant, apple, alligator, anchor, astronaut, and album Photo Cards. Say these words slowly and accurately, and ask your students: What’s the first sound in ant? (repeat for apple, alligator, anchor, astronaut, and album) Put the photo cards on the board. Say ant, apple, alligator, anchor, astronaut, and album. Ask your students what the first sound of those words is. After they’ve successfully identified that all those words start with “a”, write “a” on the board and repeat words, each time pointing to the cards. Have the students repeat: “/ ă / / ă / ant” , “ / ă / / ă / apple” , “/ ă / / ă / alligator ” and so on.

Listen & Identify

Ask your students to listen for the sound / ă /. Say: when you hear the sound / ă /, touch your chin. If you don’t hear it, shake your head. Give the students lots of words to make sure they can identify the / ă / sound.

Listen & Produce the sound / ă /

Tell your students: say / ă / when you hear it. For example, when you say: “apple”, students will say / ă /. When you say “boy”, students should keep silent as there’s no / ă / sound in the word “boy”. When you say “alligator”, students say / ă / again. Help your students repeat the / ă / sound again and again by giving them a block of the “a” words mentioned in their book.

Words with the / ă / sound in the middle:

Emphasize the / ă / sound in the middle as you show them hat, bat, and sad Photo Cards. Say these words slowly and accurately, and ask your students: What’s the middle sound in h-a-t, b-a-t and s-a-d? Write the words on the board with the letter a : h __t, b __ t, s __ d. Say hat, bat and sad. Ask your students which sound goes in the middle, then write it when they correctly name it. The letter Aa makes the sound / ă /. Have the students repeat: “/ ă / / ă / hat /h/ / ă t/ hat”. Repeat procedure for the words “bat” and “sad”.

Listen & Identify

Ask your students to listen for the sound / ă /. Say: when you hear the words with the sound / ă / in the middle, touch your nose. If not, shake your head. Give your students lots of words to make sure they can identify the / ă / sound in the middle.

Listen & Produce the sound / ă /

Tell your students: say / ă / when you hear it in the middle. So you say: “hat”, students say / ă /. When you say “cup,”, students should keep quiet. When you say “bat,”, students say / ă /. Give your students lots of words that have the / ă /sound in the middle to build phonological awareness.

Practice More

Listen & Point

Write “ a ______ ” on the left side of the board and “ ___ a ___” on the right side. Ask your students to identify if / ă / is in the middle or in the beginning of words. Say: “ant, ant, ant “ slowly and accurately two or three times. Make sure your students point to “ a _____” on the left side. Then have your students repeat the word “/ ă / / ă / ant” after you. Continue with another word in the same way. Say: “bat, bat, bat” slowly and accurately. Make sure your students point to “ __ a __” on the right side.

Using the Book

Develop Early Literacy Skills: Reading and Writing Aa

Have students open the book to page 1. Ask them what the letter is. Then write big A with their fingers in the air, and trace the big A in the book. Have students say each word with you, emphasizing the beginning

/ ă / sound. Have them pay attention by having them point to the picture they hear from you with this chant, “One little finger, one little finger, one little finger, tap, tap, tap! Point to the ceiling, point to the floor, point to the (ant)!” Students point to the word “ant,” , and say “/ ă / / ă / ant”. After reading each word, ask them: What’s the first letter in (ant)? What’s the first sound in the word (ant)? Have students use colored pens to circle the first letter “a” in the words ant, apple, and alligator.

Turn to page 3. Continue the same way with words that have the / ă / sound in the middle. Write the little “a”, read each word, emphasize the / ă / sound in the middle, ask them: What’s the middle letter in (hat)? What’s the middle sound in the word (hat)? Then circle the middle letter “a” in words hat, bat and sad.

Explore the Page

Turn to page 5. Say the name and sound of the letter Aa. Have your students write the big A and little a in the book with their fingers or the colored pens. Encourage students to give you any other words that start with the / ă / sound.

Repeat the procedure for the letter Bb.

Explore Some More

Listen & Circle

Write “a” and “b” on the board. Ask your students to listen carefully and figure out the sound in words. Say: Listen to the first sound. Tell me what the first sound is. “book, book, book” say the word slowly and accurately. Which sound is it, / ă / or /b/? Help your students read aloud /b/ if they need help. Repeat until students are confident with the / ă / & /b/ sounds. Continue with the middle sound and the last sound in the same way.

Activity on Pages 13-14

Open the book to page 13 and have your students look through it. Ask your students if there are any big “A’s” or little “a’s” on this page. If yes, take out the colored pen and give the big “A” and little “a” a circle. Then ask your students to give you lots of words that start with the / ă / sound, and those with the / ă / sound in the middle. Continue with the big “B” and little “b” by boxing the letter, and saying words with the /b/ sound. Then move on to page 14. On this page, students should identify each photo and choose words that have the / ă / sound or /b/ sound. Circle the photos with the / ă / sound, and box those with the /b/ sound.

Level 1 BK14