44 Sounds of English

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44 Sounds of English

• Each page has one sound( phoneme), showing its
  various written forms (graphemes), with examples.
• Not all graphemes are shown, so if you or your
  students discover one not shown, celebrate this
  with the student and please let us know.
• 2-18 (yellow) are consonant sounds, 19-24 (green)
  are short vowel sounds, 25-32(pink) are long
  vowel sounds, 33-39 (aqua) are digraph (combined)
  sounds, 40-44 (orange) are r controlled sounds.
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Consonant sounds1
b- ball baby bed
bb- rabbit rubble b_bble
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Consonant sounds2
d- dog duck d_ctor
dd- ladder add d_ddy c_ddle
4
Consonant sounds3
f- fish finger f_t
ff- muffin fluffy
ph- phone graph ph_t_
5
Consonant sounds4
g- goat gg- _gg
j- jug g- giraffe
ge- cage dge- hedge
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Consonant sounds5
h- hamburger house h_rse
7
Consonant sounds6
k- key c- cat ck- clock
ch- christmas q- queen
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Consonant sounds7

l- lion leg l_zard
ll- bell ball ball_ _ns
9
Consonant sounds8
m- monkey man mouse
mm- hammer
mb- thumb
10
Consonant sounds9
n- nest n_se night
nn- tunnel r_nning
kn- knight kn_ _ know
11
Consonant sounds10
p- pear people pp- _pple happy
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Consonant sounds11
r- r_bbit run rain
rr- squirrel furry sorry
wr- write wring wr_ng
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Consonant sounds12
s- s_ck s_ _ b_s
ss- dr_ss chess class
se- horse hose
c- city
ce- rice
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Consonant sounds13
t- tiger toes t_n
tt- buttons p_ttern
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Consonant sounds14
v- violin sev_n oven
ve- f_ve love give
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Consonant sounds15
w- watch wat_ _ w_ll
u- qu_ _n aqua
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Consonant sounds16
y- yacht y_llow year 2014
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Consonant sounds17
z- zebra
zz- puzzle
ze- maze
se- ch_ _se
x- xyloph_n_
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Short vowels1
a- ant a_ _le rat
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Short vowels2
e- peg ten_ bend
ea- bread hea_
a- many any
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Short vowels3
i- pin_ hit ring
y- gym gymnast hymn
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Short vowels4
o- orange
ou- cough
a- wash
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Short vowels5
u- umbr_lla
o- money
a- above
ou- touch
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Short vowels6
oo- book look coo_
u- pull
ou- could
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Short vowels7 neutral vowel
er- teacher ar- collar or- doctor
ure- measure a- zebra e- garden
i- fossil o- lion u- circus
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Long vowels1
a- table ai- snail
ay- tray cray_n ey- they
ea- break ei- veil
a_e- cake mal_ eigh- eigh_ neigh
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Long vowels2
e- equal even ee- bee eel
ea- seal beak ei- ceiling
ey- key ie- field
y- b_by lady e_e- centipede scene
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Long vowels3
i- ice ei- either
ie- pie tie y- fly cr_
i-e bike igh- ligh_ nigh_
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Long vowels4
o- volcano go oa- goat goal
ow- snow tow o_e- cone globe
ough- dough
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Long vowels5
u- uniform ute ue- Tuesda_ glue
ew- stew grew u_e- cube
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Long vowels6
ou- house mou_ _ hour
ow- cow towel fowl
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Long vowels7
oy- boy
oi- coin
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Long vowels8
oo- moon boots o- do u- truth
ui- fruit ew- screw ou- soup
ue- glue u_e- flute ough- through
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Digraphs trigraphs1
ch- cheese ch_cken
tch- watch w_tch
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Digraphs2
wh- wheel wh_le what why ? ?
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Digraphs3
sh- shell sh_p shor_
ti- station portion exclamation !
ch- machine

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Digraphs4
zh- treasure (sound) measur_
ge- camouflage entourage
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Digraphs 5
th- thumb think
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Digraphs 6
ng- ring sin_ thing thon_
n- sink
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Digraphs 7
th- feather the father bathe
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r controlled vowels1
air- chair pair are- square fare
ear- _ear tear ere- there
eir- their
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r controlled vowels2
ar- shark car al- palm
a- raft augh- laugh
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r controlled vowels3
ear- ear ier- pier
ere- here eer- deer
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r controlled vowels4
er- fern ear- heard learn ere- were
ir- bir_ or- words ur- surf nurse
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r controlled vowels5
oor- door ore- core oar- boar
our- four ough- thought or- for_
al- walk ar- warm au- sauc_ _
aw- draw augh- caught