This page contains phonics worksheets and printables for teaching students about the short a vowel sound. Most worksheets on this page align with Common Core Standards CCSS.RF.2.3.a.



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Color the pictures and cut out the boxes along the dotted lines and use glue or a stapler to attach them to the bigger part of the flip book.
1st and 2nd Grades








This phonics pennant activity needs crayons, scissors, glue, and string to complete. There are 13 pennants featuring short a words that students can make to string up around the classroom.
1st and 2nd Grades


Write the missing letter to complete each short a word. Word list includes: hat, map, rat, fan, bat, bag.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade






















Using a pencil to draw lines, match the picture on the left side of the worksheet to the corresponding short a word on the right side.



Use this primary-ruled worksheet to have your students think up and write down as many short a words as they can.
1st and 2nd Grades






Students build basic CVC words with the short a and short e sounds. Words include: jet, pet, pen, pan, fan, can.
Pre-K through 1st Grade

Students write words with the short a and the short o sounds. Words include log, hog, hot, hat, mat, and man.


Students build three-letter CVC words with the short u and the short a sounds. Words include: rug, bug, bat, rat, hat.
Pre-K through 1st Grade

This easy-to-read phonics poem has lots of short a words in it, such as cat, fat, glad, mat, tan, bad, and sad.
Kindergarten and 1st Grade


Have your students us an ink dabber, marker, or crayon to color the words that have the short a vowel sound on this printable worksheet.







Cut, color, and assemble the letter a crown. This hat features a picture of an acorn, an apple, and an ant.
Pre-K and Kindergarten









This printable card activity has twenty-eight picture cards to sort into two groups of words with a short a sound and words without a short a sound.
1st and 2nd Grades


This phonics card game has 36 cards to be cut out (18 word cards and 18 picture cards) highlighting words with the short a sound in them. Use the cards for memory games, review activities, and more.
1st and 2nd Grades


This is a phonics printable activity in which students will sort out word cards in groups of words with a short a sound and words without.
1st and 2nd Grades


This printable phonics activity has 25 word boxes to cut out. Then arrange the words to form sentences, trying to use at least one short a word in each sentence. On the lines provided, write down the sentences you make.
1st and 2nd Grades






Print and cut out cards in this scavenger hunt activity. Hide the cards featuring words with a short a sound around your classroom and have your students find them.
1st and 2nd Grades



































This link has many printable worksheets to choose from for your students to learn about words with a long a vowel sound. There are coloring worksheets, cut-and-glue activities, word wheels, writing activities, etc.
The printable worksheets in this unit have both short a and long a words in all of the worksheets so students learn to differentiate between the sounds. Try the cut-and-glue word sort activity, the horizontal word hunt, or listen-and-circle worksheets.
Check out our many word family units on this page. Includes: -ack, -ain, -am, -aw, -ed, -end, -ice, -ine, -oat, -ore, -un, and more.
This page has a huge list of all of our phonics unit all in one place. We have word family units, sight word units, word patterns, vowel digraphs and diphthongs, blends, and much, much, more!