Volume 4 Reading Deck

Sounds that close the mouth, blocked by the tongue, teeth or lips.

• Vowels

• Consonants

• Consonant Combinations

Adjacent, side-by-side consonants that make 1 sound; sometimes an unexpected sound than any other combination.

• Vowel Pair

• Consonant Combination

• Consonants

Usually ends in consonant -le. The e is silent, cross it out, bracket it off and accent the syllable before it.

• Final Stable Syllable

• Consonant Combination

Sounds that are open and voiced. a, e, i, o, u

• Consonants

• Vowels

Ends in a consonant, the vowel is short code it with a breve

• Vowels

• Closed Syllable

• Open Syllable

Adjacent, side-by-side vowels in the same syllable.

• Consonant Combination

• Closed Syllable

• Vowel Pair

When an r follows a vowel, it makes an unexpected sound, code it with an arc.

• Vowel Pair

• Consonant Combination

• Vowel r

The e is silent, cross it out; the vowel is long, code it with a macron.

• Vowel Consonant e

• Vowel Pair

• Closed Syllable

Ends in a vowel, the vowel is long, code it with a macron.

• Open

• Closed

• Vowel Pair

These sounds only happen in special situations.

• vowel pairs

• Special Situations