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  • Short Vowels Skill Explainer

Decodable — Mac the Cat

Short a decodable mac the cat reading universe

Use this decodable text to give students practice reading closed-syllable words with short 'a'. For example, the letter 'a' in nap represents the short 'a' sound because the vowel is closed in by the consonant 'p'.

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