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Contrast Cards, revised & expanded

The 41 cards in this expanded set train the brain’s speech processor to say the sounds for the letter units, either in isolation or in the context of words. The cards for each group of contrasts are in different colors so that you can quickly find the ones you need for a lesson.

Each card is 8½” by 5½”. Here are two samples:

Sounds Contrast Cards

CREAM (9 cards) – to practice sounds of the single consonants.

GREEN (5 cards) – to practice the single-sound consonant teams, such as ck, qu, sh, etc.

GRAY (6 cards) – to practice the sounds of the single vowels, one card for each vowel.

Pattern Contrast Cards

YELLOW (5 cards) – to contrast the short and long vowel sounds in closed and magic-e syllables, one card for each vowel.

BEIGE (3 cards) – to develop fluency with hard and soft sounds of c and g; one for a and e, one for o and i, one for u and y.

GOLD (5 cards) – to find the correct vowel sound for closed and magic-e words with suffixes, one card for each vowel.

BLUE (2 cards) – to practice the sound of the vowels before r, vowel-r units and vowel-r-e units.

ORANGE (6 cards) – to practice the sound of the vowel in the first syllable of consonant-l-e words, one for each vowel and one for vowel-r syllables.

+ 8 pages of detailed notes and teaching suggestions

CONTENTS

Made by Serif

ISBN 978-1-881929-45-1

$21.95

What’s New:

>> 14 new cards for developing response automaticity of symbol–sound correspondence, added in response to teacher requests and clinic observations.

>> Four more pages of instructions and teaching tips, incorporating suggestions from many users and observations from research in decoding.