



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-
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-
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-
BLUE (2 cards) – to practice the sound of the vowels before r, vowel-
ORANGE (6 cards) – to practice the sound of the vowel in the first syllable of consonant-
+ 8 pages of detailed notes and teaching suggestions
CONTENTS
© 2006 Oxton House Publishers, LLC
Made by Serif
ISBN 978-
$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.
