[bright music] [cat meowing] - Scat cat.

- Scat cat.

- That cat, I hate when he bothers us.

- I know.

- Oh my goodness.

But you know what I realized?

Scat and cat have the same sound in the middle.

What is that sound that they both have in the middle?

- A.

- What do you mean?

What is A saying?

- Aa.

- Oh, it's making a short A sound?

- Yep.

- Pretty cool.

Hi friends, my name is Anna.

- And my name is Jordan.

- And we were just about to do some work on the short A sound.

Would you like to do some work with us?

Yeah, okay.

Let's get our ears ready to listen and play with some sounds.

It's rhyme time.

So when words rhyme, they sound the same, from the vowel sound, all the way through to the end of the word.

So for example, words like cut and hut rhyme because they both say ut at the end of the word.

- And just like hat and cat because they both have two same vowel and consonant, which is A and T. - And what does A and T say?

- At.

- Awesome.

So what we're gonna do is if these words rhyme, you're gonna give us a thumbs up.

If they don't rhyme, you're gonna give us a thumbs down.

And we're gonna remember that words that rhyme sound the same from that vowel sound all the way through to the end of the word.

So let's start off with an easy one.

Jordan gave you one.

Do these two words rhyme, cat, hat?

That's right, they rhyme.

How about bat, sat?

They do.

How about these two words, map, mop?

Nope.

How about tap, pat?

Oh, listen carefully.

Tap ends in the ap sound.

And pat end in the at sound.

So do ap and at rhyme?

Nope, so that one's a thumbs down.

Good try though.

Last one, do these two words rhyme, cab, nab?

Let's listen, cab ends in the ab sound and nab ends in the ab sound.

So do they rhyme?

- Nope.

- Cab, ab.

- Yes.

- Yes, they do.

They both end in that ab sound.

You gotta listen very carefully, right.

They both have that ab in cab and the ab in nab.

Okay, before we get into our real phonics work, let's review some letter sounds.

We're gonna show you some letters.

We want you to tell us the letter name and then the sound that they represent.

So, for example, what is the name of this letter?

- C. - C. And what sound does it represent?

[k noise] Awesome.

Do you wanna show them one?

- Yep.

What's this one?

- Oh.

- It's B.

- B, and what sound does B represent?

[ba noise] - Ba, awesome.

Let's do, what letter is this?

- It's T. - And what sound does it represent?

[t noise] Awesome.

You wanna show them the next one?

Okay.

- What sound does this represent?

- Oh, what sound does that represent?

Well, hopefully, you think it's the letter D. So it represents which sound, Jordan?

[duh noise] - Duh, awesome.

Tell me the letter name?

- M. - And what sound does it represent.

[mm noise] Awesome.

- What is this letter?

And it is P. And the sound is [puh noise].

- Beautiful.

Okay, how about, what is the letter?

[nn noise] What's the letter name?

- N. - And what's the sound?

[nn noise] And notice when we make that nn sound, our lips are apart [nn noise], so like a nice little smile.

Versus when we make that mm sound, our mouth [mm noise], our lips were together.

All right, here's one.

Why don't you take it and ask them what the letter.

- This is S. - And what sound does it represent?

[ss noise] Awesome.

Okay, we are ready to start building some words.

So A the short sound is Aa like apple.

Say Aa Aa apple.

- Aa Aa apple.

- We hear the short A sound in the middle of many words, like rat, bat, cab, and lad.

A makes its short sound because it's a closed syllable, or the vowel is closed in.

Kind of like a door is shutting and making it say its short sound.

So let's say it again.

Aa Aa apple.

- Aa Aa apple.

- Okay, now what we're gonna do is Jordan's gonna help us build some words.

So the first word I want us to build is the word cat.

What sounds do we hear in the word cat?

So first, let's stretch it, cat.

Now let's tap it, kuh, Aa, tt.

- Cat.

- All right, so which letter's gonna represent that kuh sound in cat?

- C. - Okay, so let's put our C at the start of our word 'cause we already have our Aa there 'cause that's not gonna change.

That's gonna stay the same.

All right, so kuh, and what's that last one?

- And T. - All right, so put that there.

And let's make sure we're right.

Let's do some continuous blending.

So let's start with the first sound and you're gonna follow my finger and blend it all the way through.

Let's go, kuh-Aa-tt.

Let's do it a little faster, kuh-Aa-tt.

Read it.

- Cat.

- Cat, awesome.

Now, let's turn cat into bat.

What would we need to do, Jordan?

- You just change the C into B.

- All right, so do it for us.

Put it there.

You wanna put the next one up?

Go ahead.

- Now it's bat.

- Now it's bat?

Let's blend it to make sure.

First we'll do it slowly, and then we'll get a little faster, and then we'll read the whole word.

Buh-Aa-tt.

A little faster, buh-Aa-tt.

Read it.

- Bat.

- Bat.

All right, now let's turn bat into bad.

- Which we only change the T. - Oh, okay.

And then what do we need to change bat into bad?

- D. - All right.

Come on, let's blend it, buh-Aa-dd.

Buh-Aa-dd.

- Bad.

- Bad, awesome.

Now let's turn bad into mad.

Okay, how would we do that?

- Just change this into M. - Okay, so we're changing that buh sound into what sound?

- Mm.

- Mm, okay.

- So change it to this one.

- We need the M to represent Mm.

Okay, let's go.

- Not Nn, Mm.

- All right, let's blend it through.

Mm-Aa-dd.

A little faster, Mm-Aa-dd.

Read it.

- Mad.

- Awesome.

All right, now let's turn mad into map.

- We just change this.

- Okay, so we're getting rid of the duh.

- D. - And we're, oh, okay.

- Not D, P. - [laughing] Not D, P. All right, so let's blend through.

Ready?

Mm-Aa-pp.

A little faster, Mm-Aa-pp.

Read it.

- Map.

- Map.

All right, now let's turn map into sap, which is that sticky stuff that we see in trees.

So how do we turn map into sap?

- Change the M into S. - Okay, so we're changing the M into Ss.

- Yeah, not Mm, Ss.

- Right.

Okay, let's blend.

Ss-Aa-pp.

A little faster, Ss-Aa-pp.

Read it.

- Sap.

- Okay, now here's a tricky one.

How would we turn sap into snap?

[Jordan snapping] Mm, how would we do that, Jordan?

Sap into snap.

Where do you hear a sound being added?

- So first, we take off the S. - We take it away.

We don't need it anymore for snap?

- No, we still do.

- Oh, we still need it.

Oh, okay.

Oh, but what's that sound we hear?

- Nn.

- Nn, okay.

Oh, you put the blend at the beginning.

So now let's blend through this word.

Sn-Aa-pp.

Sn-Aa-pp.

Read the word?

- Snap.

- [snapping] Just like that.

Awesome, job.

- Yeah, not Mm, Nn.

- Correct.