🐀 Zac the Rat 🐀

Interactive Reading Lesson
📚 Focus: Short vowel /a/ sound
Story page
Zac is a rat.

📌 Key Story Words

Zac
rat
can
sat
ants
jam
pan
fan
ran
nap

🌟 Sight Words

a
is
on
to
and
the
had
-at
rat
cat
sat
mat
hat
bat
fat
-an
can
pan
fan
ran
man
van
tan
-am
jam
ham
ram
yam
dam
-ap
nap
cap
map
tap
lap
gap

🎓 Learning Objectives

  • Recognize and read short vowel /a/ sound as in "rat"
  • Identify and read -at, -an, -am, and -ap word families
  • Practice sight words: a, is, on, to, and, the, had
  • Build reading fluency with simple sentences
  • Understand story sequence and comprehension
  • Develop phonemic awareness through word patterns
  • Connect pictures to text for better comprehension