Short Vowel Family Sorts: Short a (ad, ag, ap)

About this teaching resource

Early readers and writers go exploring with these Short-Vowel Families sorts.

How to:

• Choose from a range of Short-Vowel Families Sorts: Look at the needs of your students to choose the sort that will most support them as writers and readers.
• Introduce students to the Short-Vowel sort: Use key words as examples
• Sort and talk about the word cards
• Look down each list of words and notice how the words are alike and what patterns exist
• Have students hunt for more words that fit the pattern.
• Make your own Word Family pocket and cards

Included in each Short-Vowel Families Sort:

• A focus short-vowel family
• Short-Vowel Family header cards (including Wondering Words, for the words that raise questions and wonderings!)
• Key Word header cards
• Sorting cards
• Word collecting cards
• Collector card pocket

Why not explore short-vowels through poetry too? Go on a Short-Vowel Family word hunt as you look back over poems in your class Big Book of Poems. (Create your own Big Book of Poems: look for poems in our extensive collection here @ Teachific.)

Australian curriculum alignment

Year 1  

Year 2  

Year 3