Updated for 2025
As we learn more about how children learn letter sounds, we as teachers have refined our practices, and I refined and adjusted mine long ago but haven’t adjusted this product.
What’s different about this version?
I have added more images in the first section of things that start with the same specific phoneme ( singular letter sound) without blends, nasalization, or r-controlled vowel images. In the original version, all the vowel sounds are short, and I have now added long ones, too. When introducing sounds, we should stick to the short vowel sounds and the typical hard consonant ones ( goat for g, not giraffe, for example). However, many of you wrote that you are using these cards past the beginner stage, so I have now included more examples of these phonemes to match.
The X images are not for the initial sound, but the final sound. Research supports that for X we are best using the final sound i words like box, fox, six, and sax. So that has been adjusted. have left blends in, but moved them to the section section along with the long vowel and soft c and g sound cards. use these as well as the soft consonant and long vowel sounds as needed, not for the initial introduction. I have opted NOT to include digraphs as they should be introduced well after children start formal school.
