The Way to Short a is a reproducible booklet loaded with activities for mastering short a. Automaticity with short a is essential and we need to give students sufficient time to become solid. Students must overlearn this foundational sound to the automatic level. It includes Tic Tac Toe games, Go Fish and fill in worksheets. We have broken it down to individual word families such as -at, -an and -ad. These games make great practice work to send home with your student. There are five booklets in this series, one for each short vowel. They also include cumulative word lists and games following this vowel sequence; a, i, o, u, e.