Word Family "ap"

 Let's try the word family "ap"
 

Please remember that some of the JK's might not know their letter sounds yet (and that's okay, and as it should be -- it is developmental!). We can still do word family work and focus on naming the letter as well as the sound before we put the letter to the word family ending. For example:
"This is a t, it makes the sound t, t, t. Can you make that sound? Now put that t sound at the front of "ap" -- t,ap; tap. 

 We have now finished  the most common short a word families. I have sent you a link to play a "short a" Boom Card Game. You have to click on the sound symbol under read it will say the word.  Then you have to drag and drop to build it using the sounds that you know. And then in find it, click to choose the picture of what was said out loud. then click the blue check mark (submit) and a new word will pop up.  In teacher language, these are called CVC words - consonant, vowel, consonant. Learning our word families is a building block to reading.