A new series of workbooks designed to help children recognize and recite short vowel sounds with games, sound recognition, following directions, tracing and writing, and thinking skills.

"The alphabet has 26 letters. Five of them are vowels: a-e-i-o-u. They can make long and short sounds. The short vowels can be used to build many simple words. Readers learn what these short vowels can do."--

The Phonics Series by Vernada Thomas helps young learners with their reading and comprehension of words and sounds. Phonics Book 1: Short Vowels with Digraphs uses a combination of traditional, direct, and unique reading exercises. The activities in this workbook help children build their vocabulary and better understand simple words - mostly featuring short vowel sounds. The exercises within this book contain letter matching, learning alphabet sounds (with an online audio component), practicing handwriting, reading short sentences and paragraphs, writing in missing letters, short vowel digraphs, consonant digraphs, word scrambles, and (of course!) coloring!These Phonics workbooks are extremely helpful to children who are learning English as a Second Language and many of these activities are specifically ESL Reading Exercises.Find the audio and learn more about Vernada Thomas at VernadaThomas.com.

An educational toolkit for teaching phonics, consisting of a book, posters and musical CD, all of which provides for multiple options and inputs for learning, including: visual-icons, auditory and kinesthetic motor skill manipulations, as well as a variety of dramatic and emotive cuing-systems designed to target the affective learning domain. This "backdoor-approach" to phonemic skill acquisition is based on current neural research on Learning & the Brain--specifically how our brains actually learn best!The Secret Stories® primary purpose is to equip beginning (or struggling, upper grade) readers and writers, as well as their instructors, with the tools necessary to easily and effectively crack the secret reading and writing codes that lie beyond the alphabet, and effectively out of reach for so many learners! It is not a phonics program! Rather, it simply provides the missing pieces learners need to solve the complex reading puzzle--one that some might never solve otherwise! The Secrets(tm) are sure to become one of the most valuable, well-used, and constantly relied-upon teaching tools in your instructional repertoire!

" ... Provides phonetic instruction and targeted reading practice in the context of highly enganging content for adults at beginning reading levels. Stories focus on a core group of characters who live and work within a city block and deal with issues typical of everyday life ... Tagreted activities help students learn word-analysis skills and develop sight vocabulary."--Back cover.

Simple text about a hot pot and repetition of the letter 'o' help readers learn how to use the 'short o' sound. Large type, vivid full-page color photos, and a word list all aid in developing reading skills. An explanatory note to parents and educators, as well as an introduction to the author, are also included.

Children will enjoy matching, sorting, and playing with these colorful flashcards to learn short and long vowel sounds. Perfect for car rides, vacations, free time, and learning on the go.

"The alphabet has 26 letters. Five of them are vowels: a-e-i-o-u. They can make long and short sounds. The short vowels can be used to build many simple words. Readers learn what these short vowels can do."--

A series of reproducible lessons introducing basic phonetics skills involving short vowels.

"This workbook on short vowels will have kids sounding out their letters well, and learning a great deal along the way. And with it's appealing design and bright colors, they'll never think they're doing homework!"--Publisher's website.