Letter A Beginning Sound Puzzles

These two piece puzzles for the letter A are great for letter recognition and beginning sounds. There are 16 different puzzles for students to build for the letter A that cover both the long A sound and the short A sound. They are a quick and easy activity to give students who need practice with recognizing the letter A or for those students who need extra practice distinguishing between the initial sounds in words.

This Literacy Center contains the following puzzles

• * Short Vowel Words - apple, alligator, astronaut, avocado, ax, ambulance, ant, and asteroid

• * Long Vowel Words - apron, acorn, angel, alien, angry, afraid, ace, and anchor (depending on dialect this one may be a short sound)

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    These alphabet worksheets can be used in the following ways

  • * Literacy centers

  • * Fine motor centers

  • * Puzzle center

  • * Small group activities

  • * Task box activity

  • * Beginning sound review

  • * Morning work

  • * Early finisher activity

  • * Emergency sub plans

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  Skills assessed with these letter A two piece puzzles

• * Letter A Recognition

• * Initial Sound of the letter A

• * Distinguishing between the long A and short A sound

• * Fine Motor Skills

• * Matching Skills

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  These letter A puzzles for beginning sounds are a low prep activity. All the teacher needs to do is to print the puzzles, cut them out, and laminate if desired. This literacy center is easy to put out and clean up and can be stored in a small plastic container, like a task box.

This puzzle activity contains 16 letter A puzzles for both long sounds and short sounds

* Short Vowel Words - apple, alligator, astronaut, avocado, ax, ambulance, ant, and asteroid

* Long Vowel Words - apron, acorn, angel, alien, angry, afraid, ace, and anchor (depending on dialect this one may be a short sound)