By the end of this lesson plan the students should be able to isolate and pronounce the initial and middle /a/ phoneme in spoken words and pictures, segment the sounds in words and pictures in order to find the /a/ phoneme, and identify the /a/ sound through dictation and hand signals in spoken words and pictures. This lesson plan includes objectives, essential questions, standards, evaluation methods, materials needed, and the procedural steps for the attention getter, summary directive, group