Classroom Poster · Short A: /a/ sound examples

Short A Sound Poster

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• Grapheme Highlight and Exceptions
• Available in two sizes
• Heavyweight 200gsm silk print
• Free printable A4 version included

This poster shows the exact short /a/ sound and the spelling rule (single a before a consonant), eight decodable example words — cat, hat, sat, map, lap, bat, rag, tap — with the grapheme a highlighted and a clearly labelled exception panel for irregulars such as "all". Teachers and parents put it on the wall for quick reference, to support decoding practice and to cue verbal modeling; Printed on heavyweight 200gsm silk in your choice of size, or download the free A4 version and print it yourself.