This passage provides practice for students who need experience reading words containing the short /a/ phoneme. Prerequisites: Mastery of consonant phonemes. Mastery of the following digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh, ckMastery of consonant blendsStudents will also encounter the following high frequency words: a, after, and, come, so, the, them, to, so, said, very, was, with, would