Phonic Chart

This chart shows the letters and has some words the letters are used in to give you an idea of what they should sound like. As you can see there are quite a few vowel sounds even though there are only 5 vowels. To say the phonic sound, just speak the word as you normally would, stretching the word out to insolate the phonic sound. In the following, the phonic sound is in bold and underlined.

Vowels

Short Vowel Sounds

a - apple, and, after

e - elephant, pen, lend

i - igloo, inside, it

o - octopus, top, mop

u - umbrella, under,

 

Long Vowel Sounds

a - make, take, bake

e - meet, feet, greet

i - lie, tie

o - boat, toe sow

u - rule, stool

oo - blue few

 

Vowels

Letters                    Words

a                                               ant mat

e ea                                          peg bread bed

i  e  o                                        pig tin wanted rocket women

o  a                                           log frog want swan

u                                              glove plug bus

oo oul u                                    book would bull put

er ar or ure a                             upper collar doctor measure zebra

ee e ea ey y                              sweet tree knee me     beach key pony

ar a                                           jar far car banana fast

or a au aw oor ore ou                fork ball sauce law saw door core thought

oo ew ue                                   moon screw glue

a a-e ai ay ei ey eigh                   baby ape tape rain snail tray vein they eight

oi oy                                         coin toy boy

ear eer                                      hear fear beer deer 

are ear air                                  square bear hair

o-e o oa ow                              bone cold boat snow

ow ou                                       down cow house  

igh y i i-e ie                               light fly tiger wild kite lie

ur er or ir                                  burn teacher work first

ue oo ew u                                blue moon screw tune

 

Consonants

c k ck ch cc que                       cat key duck school occur antique

ch tch ture                                chip chair watch fracture

d dd                                         dog ladder

f ff ph gh                                  fish coffee photo dolphin tough cough

g gg gh                                     gate egg ghost ghastly

b bb                                         bat bird rabbit

h wh                                         hat hand whole

j g ge dge                                  jet jam giant cage bridge

l ll le                                         lip leg bell sample

m mm mb                                 man mouse hammer comb lamb

n nn kn gn                                 nut net dinner knee gnat gnome

ng n                                          ring king sink ink

p pp                                         pan panda happy hippo

r rr wr                                       rat rain cherry write wrist

s ss se c ce sc x                       sun dress horse house city ice mice science box

sh ss tio ch sio ssio                  ship mission station chef expansion session

t tt bt                                        tap letter debt

th                                             thrush thumb

th                                             that feather

v ve                                          vet voice sleeve

w wh                                        wet wheel

y u-e                                         yes yawn cute

z zz ze s se                               zip fizz sneeze is laser cheese

sure sio sia                                pleasure treasure fusion Asia

 

 

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