Sound Spelling Cards
What do you know about the
sound spelling cards?
Capital letters and small letters
• When do you use capital letters instead of
small letters?
• Capital letters go at the beginnings of
sentences and special names.
What do sound spelling cards do?
• Sound spelling cards help you connect
sounds with spellings.
The pictures on sound spelling
cards help you remember the
sound
Some letters are black and some
are red.
Consonants are black
Vowels are red
Why are vowels special?
• Vowels can have more
than one sound.
• The vowel sounds can
be long or short.
• The vowel sounds can
be spelled more than
one way.
• Every word or syllable
has a vowel.
Count the syllables
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dog
table
basketball
hippopotamus
dog
ta-ble
bas-ket-ball
hip-po-pot-a-mus
There are special colored boxes for
the different vowel sounds
• Short vowels have green boxes.
There are special colored boxes for
the different vowel sounds
• Long vowels have yellow boxes.
There are special colored boxes for
the different vowel sounds
• Special vowels have blue boxes.
Some consonants have more than
one spelling.
Sometimes two consonants make
one sound.
Sometimes two vowels make one
sound.
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bead
boat
feet
rain
Some sounds have a blank before
or after the spellings.
• A blank means a
letter must go
there.
• If the blank is a
green box, then
a short vowel
must go there.