Our list contains 350 words please use our search feature to narrow results. We also indicate the location of the /a/ sound – beginning (initial) and middle (medial). The table below contains a list of words with the letter a that make the short a sound. We also included a fun game – circle the items that begin with the letter a. We offer a free printable worksheet that encourages a child to say, trace and write the upper- and lowercase letter a. We encourage a child to say, trace and write the lowercase letter a. We offer a free printable worksheet that focuses on the lowercase letter a. We encourage a child to say, trace and write the uppercase letter A. We offer a free printable worksheet that focuses on the uppercase letter A. We offer a free printable worksheet that encourages a child to say, trace and write the upper- and lowercase letter A. The lowercase a is formed as follows: around, up and down. The uppercase A is formed as follows: slant left, lift, slant right, lift and cross. Ideally, letters should be formed from top to bottom and left to right with a continuous stroke when possible. We created worksheets to help your child practice forming the upper- and lowercase letter A correctly. In some instances, the letter a can sound like the short o, e.g. These are perfect for introducing new sight words and also spiral reviewing sight words all year long. The combination of the vowels E and A also result in the short e sound, e.g. These free printable first grade sight word worksheets offer meaningful learning opportunities for your students to learn the words on the Dolch sight word list. * Vowel team rule (AI, AY, EA and OA): The vowel team rule states when two vowels go walking the first does the talking (says its name) and the second vowel is silent, e.g., br ain, pr ay, be ach and bo at. /ar/ Vowel (Bossy R), e.g., are, M arch and c ar./air/ Vowel (AR and ARE spellings), e.g., v ary, c are and p arent, and.AW Digraph, e.g., awful, l awn and dr aw,.AU Digraph, e.g., August, auto and bec ause,.AL Digraph, e.g., all, t alk and c all,.It is most commonly found using the short a sound however, it also makes the following sounds: The letter A also makes the long a sound as heard in able, m ake, r ain*, and d ay*. This is the sound (short a) you would first introduce to a child. The letter A makes the sound heard in the words apple, bl ack and c at.