Articles from the start!

While I expect most students to continue to make mistakes in the area of article usage, I make it a point with every noun to say ‘a’ or ‘an’ and reinforce the idea of vowels. Very early I told the students ‘a’ is the first letter of the alphabet and it means ‘one.’ During the theme unit on animals I began making the distinction between ‘a’ and ‘an,’ reinforcing their pattern “This is a/an ___________, would you like to see it?”