Vowel lesson: long and short /a/

Vowel lesson: long and short /a/

Objectives

• Learn a few interesting facts about apes and monkeys
• Remember that ‘a’ is a vowel
• Know how to say the short and long /a/ sounds
• Be able to hear the difference between these short and long /a/ sounds
• Remember key pictures and words ‘ăpple’ and ‘āpe’
• Know how to write capital and lower case ‘a’.

Know that a computer ‘a’ is the same as a handwritten  or cursive .