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Easier English for Dyslexics

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The Alphabet of Sounds in Pictures

Because I strongly believe struggling readers need a way to picture each English sound and examine how to make each sound, I created Easier English for Dyslexics ebook series and coloring book based on the images below.

Good readers, research shows, expertly use two skills that poor readers don't -- knowing
letter sounds and
how to blend sounds.
Easier English for Dyslexics illustrated ebook series is a fast, easy overview for overlearning these key reading abilities.

The following pictures from the ebook Overcoming Dyslexia with Pictures are designed to strengthen memory of the letter sound code particularly for older struggling readers.

Long A sound

Long A sound: gray rainy day gray rainy day

Short A sound

Short A sound: after black cat after black cat

AW sound

AW sound: auburn dog brought to the paw walk auburn dog brought to the paw walk

B sound

B sound: baby bubble bath baby bubble bath

C sounds

C sounds: city cat city cat

CH sounds

CH sounds: cheese Christmas chef cheese Christmas chef

D sound

D sound: dog dog

Long E sound

Long E sound: green pea green pea

Short E sound

Short E sound: every red dress every red dress

F sound

F sound: funny face laugh photo funny face laugh photo

G sounds

G sounds: get gas after the bridge get gas after the bridge

H sound

H sound: house home house home

Long I sound

Long I sound: white kite white kite

Short I sound

Short I sound: sticky silver pin sticky silver pin

J sound

J sound: orange juice from the fridge orange juice from the fridge

K sound

K sound: kitten kitten

L sound

L sound: lips bubble lips bubble

M sound

M sound: macho muscle man macho muscle man

N sound

N sound: name name

NG sound

NG sound: sing in spring sing in spring

Long O sound

Long O sound: rosy toe rosy toe

Short O sound

Short O sound: odd olive omelet odd olive omelet

OI/OY sound

OI/OY sound: boy enjoys going boing boy enjoys going boing

Long OO sound

Long OO sound: poo! ew, it's blue poo! ew, it's blue

Short OO sound

Short OO sound: look where put foot look where put foot

OW/OU sound

OW/OU sound: ow ouch! ow ouch!

P sound

P sound: piece of pizza pie piece of pizza pie

Q sound

Q sound: question mosquito question mosquito

R sound

R sound: rainbow rainbow

S sounds

S sounds: sunflower rose sunflower rose

SH sound

SH sound: wash sheets wash sheets

T sound

T sound: time ten after ten time ten after ten

TH sounds

TH sounds: breathe breath breathe breath

Long U sound

Long U sound: cube cube

Short U sound

Short U sound: ugh! plum thumb ugh! plum thumb

UR sound

UR sound: her first nurse works early her first nurse works early

V sound

V sound: van van

W sound

W sound: wet quick wet quick

X sounds

X sound: fox exit xylophone fox exit xylophone

Y consonant sound

Y sound: yellow onion yellow onion

Z sound

Z sound: zipper zipper

ZH sound

ZH sound: garage division treasure garage division treasure

Use the pictures to help master each sound. Then practice connecting the sounds in each picture's keywords to the letters that represent those sounds. For audio of the sounds to go along with the pictures see Learn English Sounds with Pictures and Audio.

Helpful hint: every vowel can become a schwa (short U) sound, and Y can be a number of different vowel sounds explained in Just Vowel Sounds PDF below. For more about spelling patterns for each sound, see Easier English for Dyslexics 1: All the Sounds in English.

Why draw your own book...

...because I believe drawing pictures for each sound and speaking each sound when writing words will improve reading skills more rapidly.

Books from the Easier English for Dyslexics ebook series are offered free at Amazon most weekends. Find free Kindle for Android ebook viewer here. The colorful, imaginative ebook series reviews how to make the sounds in English and all their different spelling patterns.

There is also a paperback reference, My Easier English Coloring Book: All the Sounds in English. For more about me, see D M Baker's author profile.

Useful PDFs

How to use a weekly spelling word list to improve reading

Just Consonant Sounds

Just Vowel Sounds