Book Description

Alphagram Big Letter-Sound Cards are the only flash cards you can spell words with. The deck consists of 46 cards, 6 x 11.5", printed on heavy coated paperboard, one card for each of the 44 phonemes (letter-sounds) in the English language, plus "magic e" (to turn the vowel long), and a cover card with helpful suggestions for teaching exercises and games. On the front of each card is a large lower-case letter -- in our custom-designed font that makes it easy to differentiate letters that are sometimes confused -- the corresponding Alphagram pictogram, the key word, and the upper-case letter.The back of each card lists other spellings for the same letter-sound (phoneme). For example, the sound of long 'i' as in 'ice cream' can be spelled five different ways: 'ie' as in 'pie,' 'e-consonant-e' as in 'bike,' 'y' as in 'cry,' and 'igh' as in 'light.' The sound of long 'a' as in 'acorn' can be spelled eight different ways. This is one of the things that makes English challenging, and is so important for young students to learn. Designed for kids' room walls and classroom bulletin boards, these cards make spelling challenges interesting and fun.