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Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Phonics Flashcards (R-Controlled Vowels)

Today I would like to share the set of the R-controlled Vowel Sounds Flashcards.


The set consists of 20 flashcards. Cards №№ 133-136 present words in which the letter a followed by the letter r makes the sound [a:]. Card № 137 presents words where the letters o and r give [ɔː]. Cards №№ 138-140 present the sound [ɜː] made by the phonograms ir, ur, er.

Cards №№ 141-145 include phonograms -er, -or, -ur which produce the schwa sound [ə]. It should be noted that the card №143 gives the words with the British spelling of the phonogram -our like in colour, favour; the card №145 gives the same words with the American spelling -or like in color, favor.

Cards №№146-148 display such phonograms as -eer, -ear, -ere which make the sound [ɪə]. Card № 149 contains the words where the phonogram -ir meets one more vowel resulting in the sound [aɪə] like in fire, iron. Cards №№ 150-151 demonstrate the phonograms -our, -ower that give the sound [auə]. Card № 152 shows cases where the phonogram -ur meets one more vowel making the sound [juːə] like in cure, during.

english phonics flashcards r-controlled vowel sounds
Phonics Flashcards: r-controlled vowel sounds

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Letter B Worksheets, Flash Cards, Coloring Pages

This is another blog post that I create to systematize the collection of English teaching materials I’ve been publishing through years on my blog and help fellow ESL teachers find what they are looking for. A large part of flashcards and worksheets I created are dedicated to English letters and sounds. After all I teach English mostly to very young students who are just getting to know the language through the alphabet, phonics and first high frequency words they try to memorize, recognize and read.

If you work with preschool and elementary school kids as I do, you might want to consider using my printable teaching materials too. I have already published flashcards, worksheets and coloring pages featuring letter A. And this blog post is dedicated to letter B. Enjoy!

printable worksheet find letter b
Find letter B worksheet. Buy letter search worksheets for all letters.

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Phonics Flashcards (Consonants Bb, Cc and Ff)

My printable phonics flashcards proved to be quite popular among ESL teachers from all over the world. No wonder. English is considered to be a tough language to read. There are too many exceptions to spelling and pronunciation rules, so lots of kids who study English as their second language find it challenging to learn reading in English. My phonics flashcards are designed to point out some spelling patterns and corresponding sounds. These cards are helpful both for teachers and students as they present some example words that should be introduced to students to help them understand how the same letters can make different sounds in English words depending on their place in the word and the adjacent letters. All the words presented in the flashcards are easy to read and memorize as I have selected some of the most frequently used ones for each case.


Till today I had only completed flashcards for vowel sounds, however I took some time to work on consonant phonics too, so a set of English consonant flashcards is ready now. There are 124 flashcards in the consonant set. I’ll be posting all of them here in my blog over the time. If you need them right now, you are welcome to purchase them in a printer-friendly PDF document. The document has high resolution flashcards images for easy and high quality printing. Just follow the links above to make a purchase in my store.







In today’s post I’d like to show you the first 28 consonant phonics flashcards.

Bb: cards №№1-2 present words with the sound [b] at the beginning and the end of the words. Card №3 contains words with the silent B. Cards №№4-5 present the blends bl, br.

Phonics flashcards, consonant b