Read these short (a) words in each of the columns. If you need to decode (sound out) these words, remember to “slide” the beginning (consonant, consonant blend, digraph) sound into the vowel sound, then “hook on” the ending (consonant, consonant blend, or digraph) sound
at | brat | bad | brad | bag | brag |
bat | chat | cad | clad | gag | crag |
cat | flat | dad | glad | hag | drag |
fat | scat | fad | shad | jag | flag |
hat | slat | had | lag | snag | |
mat | spat | lad | nag | stag | |
pat | that | mad | rag | swag | |
rat | pad | sag | |||
sat | sad | tag | |||
tat | wag | ||||
vat |
am | clam | an | bran | cap | chap |
cam | cram | ban | clan | gap | clap |
dam | dram | can | flan | lap | flap |
ham | gram | Dan | plan | map | scrap |
jam | pram | fan | scan | nap | slap |
Pam | scam | man | span | rap | snap |
ram | scram | pan | Stan | sap | strap |
Sam | sham | ran | than | tap | trap |
tam | slam | tan | yap | ||
yam | swam | van | zap | ||
tram |
cab | crab | ax | flax | and | bland |
gab | grab | lax | band | brand | |
jab | slab | sax | hand | grand | |
lab | stab | tax | land | stand | |
tab | wax | sand | strand |
bass | brass | cast | blast | back | black |
lass | class | fast | hack | clack | |
mass | crass | last | Jack | crack | |
pass | glass | mast | lack | flack | |
sass | grass | past | pack | quack | |
vast | rack | shack | |||
sack | slack | ||||
Al | tack | smack | |||
gal | snack | ||||
Hal | stack | ||||
pal | track | ||||
Val | whack |
camp | champ | ash | brash | bank | blank |
damp | cramp | bash | clash | dank | clank |
lamp | scamp | cash | crash | hank | drank |
ramp | stamp | dash | flash | lank | flank |
tamp | tramp | gash | slash | rank | frank |
vamp | hash | smash | sank | plank | |
lash | splash | tank | prank | ||
mash | stash | yank | shrank | ||
rash | trash | spank | |||
sash | thrash | stank | |||
swank | |||||
thank |
ask | flask | daft | craft | asp | clasp |
bask | haft | draft | gasp | grasp | |
cask | raft | graft | hasp | ||
mask | shaft | rasp | |||
task |
bath | bang | clang | can't | chant | |
lath | gang | slang | pant | grant | |
math | hang | sprang | rant | plant | |
path | rang | twang | scant | ||
rath | sang | slant |
ranch | blanch | dance | chance | catch | klatch |
branch | lance | France | hatch | scratch | |
stanch | glance | latch | snatch | ||
prance | match | thatch | |||
stance | patch | ||||
trance |
advance | cancan | grandstand | ransack |
backhand | capstan | handcraft | rattrap |
backlash | catnap | handstand | sandbank |
backpack | claptrap | hangman | sandblast |
backtrack | crabgrass | hatband | sandman |
bandstand | crankshaft | hatrack | scratchpad |
Batman | fastback | madcap | snapback |
blackjack | fatback | madman | taxman |
blackstrap | flapjack | ragtag | transplant |
cabstand | gangplank | ||