By identifying short “a” words, kids can improve their phonemic awareness, which is a crucial skill for reading and spelling. Plus, the images are black and white, which kids can color after ...

Phonemes are the building blocks of language. Represented by letters of the alphabet, they are the component sounds of spoken words. Most people automatically hear, for example, that the word ...

So for the word 'bat' there are three short sounds, or phonemes that make up the word, which are b-a-t. Bat. Using the short sounds rather than the letters in the alphabet,B-A-T, really helps with ...