• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Course
    • Teaching Every Reader
  • Subscriber Freebies
  • About
  • Contact
  • Shop
  • Member Login

The Measured Mom

Education resources for parents and teachers

  • Alphabet
  • Reading
    • Structured literacy
    • Printable Books
    • Pre-Reading
    • Phonics
    • Sight Words
    • Comprehension
    • Fluency
    • Vocabulary
  • Writing
    • Grammar
    • Handwriting
    • Spelling
    • Writing in Pre-K
    • Writing in K-3
  • Math
    • Counting
    • Number Recognition
    • Addition & Subtraction
    • Colors, Shapes & Patterns
    • Visual Discrimination
    • Time, Money & Measurement
    • Place Value
    • Graphs
    • Multiplication & Division
    • Fractions
    • Problem Solving
  • Book Lists
    • Letter of the Week
    • Early Childhood Themes
    • Pre-Reading Skills
    • Math Concepts
    • Writing Mentor Texts
    • Versions of Familiar Tales
    • Holidays and Seasonal
    • History
    • Leveled Book Lists
  • Join Membership
Home
  • Shop
  • Blog
    • Alphabet
    • Reading
    • Writing
    • Math
    • Book Lists
  • Podcast
  • Courses
    • Teaching Every Reader
    • Teaching Every Writer
  • Subscriber Freebies
  • About
  • Membership
  • Contact

PSPKK12325 Comments

Cut & paste worksheets for short a word families

This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Sharing is caring!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

I’m teaching my daughter to read CVC words, so I created these simple worksheets as a way to get extra practice. Since she is only in preschool, she does these worksheets with me, and only after we’ve done a more hands-on blending activity.

I cut out the words at the bottom of each page (of course, she could do this herself, but since I knew the activity would be challenging I wanted to conserve her energy – ha!).

Together, we worked at sounding out each word so she could glue it under the corresponding picture.

I love teaching beginning reading with word families. Once kids have the word family figured out (in the upper right hand corner of each worksheet), they can attach the beginning sound of each word to the ending.

This was the second time we did this activity. The first time was much tougher, and she only lasted through 2 worksheets. This time we did four (although she’d had more than enough by that point).

My preschooler does very well sounding out words in the “at” family, as we’ve spent a lot of time on those. But she often gets confused when reading other word families. You may see this in older, struggling readers. For example, if you ask them to read map, they may read it like this:

Teacher: Can you say the sounds of these letters?

Student: /m,/ /ă/, /p/.

Teacher: Now put the sounds together.

Student: /mmmm/, /ă/, /p/.  Pat?

They often struggle to keep all those sounds in their memory, in order. That’s why successive blending is so helpful. We did a session of it right before doing these worksheets, and it really helped.

I hope you enjoy this freebie!

Get your free cut & paste short a worksheets!

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD

BUILD A STRONG PHONICS FOUNDATION!

Word Slider Cards

$10.00

Word slider cards are a great tool for helping kids blend sounds together to make words. This bundle includes over 300 printable short vowel word slider cards.

Buy Now

Free Reading Printables for Pre-K-3rd Grade

Join our email list and get this sample pack of time-saving resources from our membership site! You'll get phonemic awareness, phonics, and reading comprehension resources ... all free!

Sharing is caring!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: CVC Words, Reading Tagged With: first grade, kindergarten, short a, CVC words

You May Also Enjoy These Posts:

Word family mats for short o Write the room activity for short e words What’s an interactive read aloud? (With a printable book list!)
Write the room: Telling time
Books about multiplication

Reader Interactions

25 Comments

  1. Tracey

    April 3, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    These are great! Do you have more of these cut and paste word family worksheets?

    Reply to this comment
    • Kate Dowling

      April 4, 2020 at 10:08 am

      Hi Tracey! This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. Anna hasn’t made that same set for the other vowels, but she does have short vowel worksheet sets for each short vowel on her Free Printables page. Please look under each short vowel and you’ll find a set of worksheets. Some are cut and paste: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/print-2/#short-a

      Reply to this comment
  2. Kate Dowling

    September 30, 2019 at 11:01 pm

    Hi Halema!

    This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. Yes, Anna has worksheets for all the short vowels. Here is a link to the Free Printables page, beginning with the short e activities. Please look under each short vowel for the worksheet packs. https://www.themeasuredmom.com/print-2/#short-e

    Reply to this comment
  3. Halema

    September 30, 2019 at 8:46 am

    Thank you so much for this freebie. Will you be posting any more of the other short vowel family words

    Reply to this comment
  4. Mindy

    September 27, 2019 at 9:53 am

    I’m an English as the second language teacher with first through sixth graders and I love your stuff. Thanks so much especially for the freebies!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      September 28, 2019 at 12:03 pm

      You’re very welcome, Mindy!

      Reply to this comment
  5. Rizel

    November 8, 2018 at 12:36 am

    Thank you for sharing! I so excited to teach this in my class. I’m a sped teacher here in the Philippines. God bless…

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      November 8, 2018 at 7:24 am

      You’re welcome, Rizel!

      Reply to this comment
  6. stephanie V

    November 7, 2018 at 4:46 pm

    Thank you for sharing! I teach special ed. and this is really helping my student. He has began to read! I can’t wait for you to share the other short vowels! Thank you so much!!!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      November 9, 2018 at 6:52 am

      I’ll be sharing these in the subscriber library (free for newsletter subscribers) very soon, so be on the lookout for that! 🙂

      Reply to this comment
  7. Ellen

    October 25, 2018 at 6:00 pm

    Thank you so much for sharing, I appreciate all your efforts with these beautiful and very informative materials it helps me a lot to teach my children through reading and they learned how to read and they love and enjoyed reading..

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      October 27, 2018 at 7:56 am

      You’re welcome, Ellen!

      Reply to this comment
  8. Carolyn

    October 18, 2018 at 8:47 pm

    Thank you for all of the wonderful resources. Your work is awesome and a time saver.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      October 23, 2018 at 5:49 am

      I’m so glad you can use my resources, Carolyn! 🙂

      Reply to this comment
      • Vandana

        December 13, 2021 at 8:56 am

        It’s very useful
        Thank you.

        Reply to this comment
  9. Margie Johansen

    October 18, 2018 at 6:28 pm

    Thank you for providing helpful information!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      October 23, 2018 at 5:48 am

      You’re welcome, Margie! 🙂

      Reply to this comment
  10. Teresa Gordon

    October 18, 2018 at 8:04 am

    Thanks for your wonderful printables and settinf up such an amazing website. Its wounderful that i can just open the email click print and its all done for me. My girls love it 6, 3, & 2 even if the 2 doesnt quite get it. Haha enjoy these holiday times cant wait to sew what youll have to offer

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      October 23, 2018 at 5:48 am

      I’m so glad you can use my website with your girls, Teresa!

      Reply to this comment
  11. Etty

    October 18, 2018 at 7:09 am

    Thanks for your effort. Really appreciate it.
    I am teaching 4years old.

    This really helps.

    Thank you so much

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      October 23, 2018 at 5:48 am

      You’re very welcome, Etty!

      Reply to this comment
  12. Dorothy

    October 18, 2018 at 1:54 am

    Thank you so much for all the wonderful Freebies which I so appreciate. I have a few students in Vietnam where I am currently living with my husband. You are a special blessing!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      October 23, 2018 at 5:48 am

      You’re very welcome, Dorothy! 🙂

      Reply to this comment
  13. Neangnheuk

    October 18, 2018 at 1:21 am

    Thanks you for sharing. I think teaching by that ways is practically both teacher and students. I’m sorry for updates. I live in the rural with poor mobile service and this this seasons. I’m so busy.thanks for asking.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      October 23, 2018 at 5:48 am

      I’m glad you can use these, Neangnheuk!

      Reply to this comment

Leave a Comment Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Grade Level Key

  • PS Preschool (ages 2-3 years)
  • PK Pre-K (ages 4-5 years)
  • K Kindergarten
  • 1 1st grade
  • 2 2nd grade
  • 3 3rd grade

Hello, I’m Anna!

Welcome to The Measured Mom. I’m so glad you’re here!

Meet Our Team

Free Reading Printables for Pre-K-3rd Grade

Join our email list and get this sample pack of time-saving resources from our membership site! You'll get phonemic awareness, phonics, and reading comprehension resources ... all free!

Shop these popular reading resources!

Editable Reading Games for Every Season – MEGA PACK!

$24.00

Phonics Books & Games – Complete Set

$49.00

Reading response sheets & Early chapter book lists

$18.00

Shop All Resources

Members get more!

The Measured Mom Plus is the perfect online membership for Pre-K to third grade educators.

Learn More

Love Freebies?

Subscribing to our email newsletter is completely free. And when you do, you'll get access to our library of subscriber freebies! Sign up below to get access to a wonderful variety of math and literacy resources.

Join our online course and get the tools you need to teach every learner in K-2!

Confidently teach every reader in your classroom. Still have time to live your life.

Learn More

Listen and subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher

Check out these recent podcast episodes:

  • What does the research say about alphabet instruction? with Dr. Shayne Piasta
  • What is set for variability? A conversation with Dr. Marnie Ginsberg
  • How to help students improve language comprehension – a conversation with Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan
More Episodes

Check out these FREE email courses...

Get strategies and tools to teach a particular topic with a free 5-day email series! Just click an image to sign up. We recommend signing up for just one at a time.

For Pre-K Educators

How to teach phonological & phonemic awareness

How to teach phonological & phonemic awareness

Learn how to develop this important pre-reading skill with a free 5-day email series!

How to teach preschool math

How to teach preschool math

Learn exactly what to teach your preschoolers in this free 5-day series!

For Kinder & 1st Grade Educators

How to teach kids to sound out words

How to teach kids to sound out words

Learn my top strategies for teaching kids to "sound it out"

How to teach sight words

How to teach sight words

Get strategies and tools for teaching sight words to young learners!

Tips for teaching phonics

Tips for teaching phonics

Sign up for our free 5-day email series to learn what phonics skills to teach and how to structure your phonics lessons!

For 2nd & 3rd Grade Educators

How to build reading fluency

How to build reading fluency

Learn smart strategies for helping your learners become fluent readers with this free 5-day series!

How to build reading comprehension

How to build reading comprehension

Discover the essential reading comprehension strategies for 2nd & 3rd grade and how to teach them!

“Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” –Matthew 6:33

Copyright © 2023 The Measured Mom •  All rights reserved  •  Privacy & Disclosure Statement  •  Site Design by Emily White Designs