The materials on this page offers enhanced methods and tools for introducing phonics rules English-as-a-second-language learners. The color-coding system makes it easy for students understand which letters are working together to create a phonics sound.
All of the materials on this pages are designed to offer a seamless integration with our Vocabulary Flashcards, Alphabet Teaching Cards, and gamified phonics activities, all of which use the same system of color-coded phonics symbols.
Phonics Rule Cards
Teaching phonics rules (especially about long and short vowels) to second-language learners of English can be challenging. To make it easier, we developed a special collection of cards designed to help students visualize how the rules work.
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Phonics Rule Card for 'short a'
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Phonics Rule Card for the 'gl' Blend
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These cards will help with teaching everything listed below. Click on any of the links under the cards below to go to the related section of the User Guide for our Phonics Rule Cards.
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'al' in 'pal' VS 'al' in 'salt'
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'ow' in 'now' VS 'ow' in 'know'
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Special 'q' + 'u' Relationship
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Phonics Word Cards
Any teacher using the Phonics Rule Cards shown above will probably also want to use cards with the same symbols to show students example words. Word cards are great for providing examples of rules while teaching, as well as reading & decoding practice.
Teachers can choose from our selections of pre-made cards or even make their own for any word that they want to use for teaching phonics.
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Phonics Word Card for 'bed'
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Phonics Word Card for 'dog'
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To make teaching even easier, these cards can be double-sided with a vocab image each card-back. Teachers may find it helpful to have an image on the back of card that matches the word printed on the front. While printing images on the backs of your cards is optional, all the provided pre-made card collections have printable card backs included.
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Card-front for 'duck'
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Card-back for 'duck'
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Teach With The Phonics Words YOU Choose
It is important to use that teachers have a high level of flexibility in how they use this system. Therefore, rather the provide an inflexible collection of .pdf based word cards, instead we created a series of .ppt files that teachers can easily download and edit. This gives teachers the power to print Phonics Word Cards only for the words they want to use during their lessons.
Access to a computer with Microsoft Powerpoint is not required. The editable files are available in both .ppt and .odt format and can also be opened and edited using the opensource and 100% free LibreOffice Impress software program.
Pre-Made Phonics Word Card Collections
A variety of pre-made sets of Phonics Word Card are available. While of the pre-made collections are 100% editable, they can also simply be printed and used as that are with no customization required.
Make Your Own Card Printables Using Templates
To make creating custom cards extra easy for teachers, we've created 15 templates that offer editable card designs for just about every type of word teachers might use for teaching phonics.
Our Phonics Word Card template file has a template page for every type of word structure