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5. Lesson Plans for Short Vowels

Short Vowels Skill Explainer

Lesson Plan for Focusing on Short 'a'

This lesson plan includes warm-up phonemic awareness activities and all the steps needed to reinforce short 'a'. A good resource for kindergarten teachers or anyone focusing on short vowels with early readers.

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