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The English Alphabetic Code: Consonants

This document provides information about consonant and vowel sounds in the English alphabet. For consonants, it lists individual letters and their sounds, as well as digraphs (two-letter combinations representing single sounds). It notes some letters like x, qu, and nk represent combinations of sounds rather than single phonemes. For vowels, it similarly lists individual vowel letters and their sounds. It also lists common vowel digraphs and trigraphs, noting some like ue represent sounds not represented by a single letter. It cautions that vowel sounds in English do not always follow consistent spelling patterns.

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The English Alphabetic Code: Consonants

This document provides information about consonant and vowel sounds in the English alphabet. For consonants, it lists individual letters and their sounds, as well as digraphs (two-letter combinations representing single sounds). It notes some letters like x, qu, and nk represent combinations of sounds rather than single phonemes. For vowels, it similarly lists individual vowel letters and their sounds. It also lists common vowel digraphs and trigraphs, noting some like ue represent sounds not represented by a single letter. It cautions that vowel sounds in English do not always follow consistent spelling patterns.

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The English Alphabetic Code: Consonants

Listen, read and repeat the consonant letter sounds.


A. Graphemes (one letter = one sound)
b c/k d f g h
bat cat dog fish golf hat
rabbit kick daddy puff bigger
elephant
j l m n p r
jam leg map net pig rock
giraffe silly mummy sunny happy hurry
orange know write
bridge
s t v w x y z
sun top van wind box yes zoo
dress kitty when buzz
horse cheese
circle legs
peace

Listen, read and repeat the consonant letter sounds.


B. Digraphs (two letters = one sound)
ch sh th / th qu ng / nk
chips ship that / queen king
witch chef three think

Notes:
a) x /ks/, qu /kw/ and nk /ngk/ are not pure phonemes
b) the final consonant phoneme zh is the voiced sh sound (vision, measure).
Words with this phoneme are taught as tricky words.
The English Alphabetic Code: Vowels
Listen, read and repeat the vowel letter sounds.
A. Graphemes (one letter = one sound)
a e i o u
ant egg in on up
bread

Listen, read and repeat the vowel letter sounds.


B. Digraphs (two letters = one sound) and trigraphs (three letters = one sound)
ai ee ie oa ue oi
rain see pie boat cue oil
day eat my yellow new boy
lake scene light home cube
funny mine
ou oo / oo ar or er / //
house look / moon park short her
brown blue talk bird
rule awful nurse
autumn sister

Notes:
a) ue /yoo/ is not a pure phoneme.
b) Words are often tricky because the vowel sound doesnt follow a spelling pattern
e.g. done rhymes with sun; put rhymes with foot; great rhymes with wait and late;
you rhymes with do and too; and word rhymes with herd and bird.

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