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Worksheets for short a words

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Download this free bundle of nine short a worksheets! Great for review and reinforcement!

For quite a few months now, I’ve been doing early reading activities with my Five. He is getting much better at quickly sounding out CVC words thanks to our hands-on activities and games.

After all this practice, I knew that my Five was ready for some review/assessment with a worksheet pack.

Download this free bundle of nine short a worksheets! Great for review and reinforcement!

The pack includes nine worksheets, not so that you need to do all of them but so that you can pick and choose the ones that work for your learners. We started with this matching page. After we did the activity I realized it would be better to have the words in the first column so that he had to read them before finding the pictures, instead of vice versa. (The two columns are switched in the download.)

Download this free bundle of nine short a worksheets! Great for review and reinforcement!

I’ve found that beginning readers may be exhausted by a lot of writing activities, so I kept that to a minimum in the bundle. In the above example, my Five only had to name each picture and glue it under the proper word family name.

Download this free bundle of nine short a worksheets! Great for review and reinforcement!

Here he read the simple sentences and matched the pictures.

Download this free bundle of nine short a worksheets! Great for review and reinforcement!

Here he read each word and matched the pictures.

Download this free bundle of nine short a worksheets! Great for review and reinforcement!

This activity has the same idea, but each word begins with a blend or digraph.

Download this free bundle of nine short a worksheets! Great for review and reinforcement!

This was the last activity that we did today. He colored the letters of each word and wrote the words on the line.

Writing each word was pretty tiring for him (he hasn’t started kindergarten yet), so it was time to be done after this worksheet.

I had told him that after he did some worksheets, he could type on my computer. He was soon very busy typing the numbers 1-100, which is one of his favorite things to do. 🙂

We hope you can use some of the pages in this bundle!

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

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16 Comments

  1. Amy Lai

    February 2, 2021 at 4:20 pm

    Hi Anna,
    Do you have these worksheets but for the other sounds? short e, i, o u etc

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    • Heather Groth, Customer Support

      February 2, 2021 at 10:39 pm

      Hello Amy! Yes, we do! You can find them here:
      Short e – https://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-short-e-worksheets/
      Short i – https://www.themeasuredmom.com/grab-our-free-short-i-worksheets/
      Short o – https://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-short-o-worksheets/
      Short u – https://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-short-u-worksheets/

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  2. Karen

    February 24, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    I use your worksheets often! Thank you for such wonderful material! They are fun and my class enjoys them. 🙂

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  3. Fatmeh

    February 21, 2020 at 7:21 am

    Thank you for your wonderful worksheets

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  4. Mary Johnsen

    February 20, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    thank you for the extra word family ideas!

    Are you sharing the other vowels also in this format?

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    • Kate Dowling

      February 21, 2020 at 1:34 pm

      Hi Mary!
      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. Here’s the link to the short vowel activities on the Free Printables page: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/print-2/#short-a. You’ll find each vowel has a link to its worksheet pack. We hope you enjoy them!

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  5. Sooah

    September 2, 2018 at 7:27 pm

    Wow! I find such a great resources and worksheets on your site! I’m so thankful for all your great works!! Such an inspiration! Thank you so much!

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    • Anna G

      September 3, 2018 at 8:19 am

      Thank you for your kind words, Sooah! I’m so glad that you can find helpful resources on my site.

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  6. Liza

    August 12, 2018 at 9:38 pm

    Thanks for sharing your bright ideas.
    I love your work.

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    • Anna G

      August 13, 2018 at 9:12 am

      You’re welcome, Liza!

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  7. Nikki

    August 10, 2017 at 1:21 pm

    I love your worksheets!!! Definitely looking forward to the rest of the vowel worksheets!

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    • Anna G

      August 12, 2017 at 9:48 pm

      I’m a little backed up at the moment, Nikki, but I haven’t forgotten them! Probably later in the fall.

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  8. Jenn

    May 9, 2017 at 11:48 am

    Thanks for the freebees! Do you have more like this for the other vowels? Thank you!

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    • Anna Geiger

      May 13, 2017 at 4:48 pm

      Not yet, but hopefully in the next few months!

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  9. Kate

    May 8, 2017 at 6:05 pm

    Anna, we do our absolute best at my private school Kindergarten to NOT use worksheets. We make games…all the time.
    I adapt several of your worksheets into games. And we love your games. Anything hands-on and exploratory and participatory is great for this age group.
    Of course, worksheets do come in handy when we begin to have the kids prepare for First Grade.

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    • Anna Geiger

      May 9, 2017 at 5:12 am

      Worksheets definitely aren’t essential, and I’m glad to hear that you’re finding ways to teach without using them!

      Reply to this comment

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