Title: 44 Sounds of English
144 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. - Some graphs have been left blank as a challenge
for your students. Use these as you feel
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READ tutor knowledge or as a student activity. (
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2Consonant sounds1
b- ball baby bed
bb- rabbit rubble b_bble
3Consonant sounds2
d- dog duck d_ctor
dd- ladder add d_ddy c_ddle
4Consonant sounds3
f- fish finger f_t
ff- muffin fluffy
ph- phone graph ph_t_
5Consonant sounds4
g- goat gg- _gg
j- jug g- giraffe
ge- cage dge- hedge
6Consonant sounds5
h- hamburger house h_rse
7Consonant sounds6
k- key c- cat ck- clock
ch- christmas q- queen
8Consonant sounds7
l- lion leg l_zard
ll- bell ball ball_ _ns
9Consonant sounds8
m- monkey man mouse
mm- hammer
mb- thumb
10Consonant sounds9
n- nest n_se night
nn- tunnel r_nning
kn- knight kn_ _ know
11Consonant sounds10
p- pear people pp- _pple happy
12Consonant sounds11
r- r_bbit run rain
rr- squirrel furry sorry
wr- write wring wr_ng
13Consonant sounds12
s- s_ck s_ _ b_s
ss- dr_ss chess class
se- horse hose
c- city
ce- rice
14Consonant sounds13
t- tiger toes t_n
tt- buttons p_ttern
15Consonant sounds14
v- violin sev_n oven
ve- f_ve love give
16Consonant sounds15
w- watch wat_ _ w_ll
u- qu_ _n aqua
17Consonant sounds16
y- yacht y_llow year 2014
18Consonant sounds17
z- zebra
zz- puzzle
ze- maze
se- ch_ _se
x- xyloph_n_
19Short vowels1
a- ant a_ _le rat
20Short vowels2
e- peg ten_ bend
ea- bread hea_
a- many any
21Short vowels3
i- pin_ hit ring
y- gym gymnast hymn
22Short vowels4
o- orange
ou- cough
a- wash
23Short vowels5
u- umbr_lla
o- money
a- above
ou- touch
24Short vowels6
oo- book look coo_
u- pull
ou- could
25Short vowels7 neutral vowel
er- teacher ar- collar or- doctor
ure- measure a- zebra e- garden
i- fossil o- lion u- circus
26Long vowels1
a- table ai- snail
ay- tray cray_n ey- they
ea- break ei- veil
a_e- cake mal_ eigh- eigh_ neigh
27Long vowels2
e- equal even ee- bee eel
ea- seal beak ei- ceiling
ey- key ie- field
y- b_by lady e_e- centipede scene
28Long vowels3
i- ice ei- either
ie- pie tie y- fly cr_
i-e bike igh- ligh_ nigh_
29Long vowels4
o- volcano go oa- goat goal
ow- snow tow o_e- cone globe
ough- dough
30Long vowels5
u- uniform ute ue- Tuesda_ glue
ew- stew grew u_e- cube
31Long vowels6
ou- house mou_ _ hour
ow- cow towel fowl
32Long vowels7
oy- boy
oi- coin
33Long vowels8
oo- moon boots o- do u- truth
ui- fruit ew- screw ou- soup
ue- glue u_e- flute ough- through
34Digraphs trigraphs1
ch- cheese ch_cken
tch- watch w_tch
35Digraphs2
wh- wheel wh_le what why ? ?
36Digraphs3
sh- shell sh_p shor_
ti- station portion exclamation !
ch- machine
37Digraphs4
zh- treasure (sound) measur_
ge- camouflage entourage
38Digraphs 5
th- thumb think
39Digraphs 6
ng- ring sin_ thing thon_
n- sink
40Digraphs 7
th- feather the father bathe
41r controlled vowels1
air- chair pair are- square fare
ear- _ear tear ere- there
eir- their
42r controlled vowels2
ar- shark car al- palm
a- raft augh- laugh
43r controlled vowels3
ear- ear ier- pier
ere- here eer- deer
44r controlled vowels4
er- fern ear- heard learn ere- were
ir- bir_ or- words ur- surf nurse
45r controlled vowels5
oor- door ore- core oar- boar
our- four ough- thought or- for_
al- walk ar- warm au- sauc_ _
aw- draw augh- caught