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Notice Copyright 2012 by Rodney Everson

This abbreviated sample set of 30 of the OnTrack Reading Phonogram Flash Cards, while copyrighted, can be transmitted to others in the form of a PDF. The full set of 84 cards cannot be transmitted as a PDF, however, without violating the copyright. The full set is available as a PDF at Lulu.com at a modest price. The website link to the page at Lulu.com with the flash cards is: http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/ontrack-reading-phonogram-flash-cards-pdf/18856981, or just go to Lulu.com and search for OnTrack Reading Phonogram Flash Cards.

Instructions for Use (Instructions for printing the cards are on the next page. )
To use the cards, simply show a card, for example the t card and say This is /t/. (In these instructions, /t/ means the sound of t, not the letter name.) Later, the child should respond by just saying /t/ when shown the card. If he doesnt know it, just repeat again, This is /t/. What makes English particularly difficult is that several phonograms represent more than one sound. When you show, for example, the s card, just say This is /s/, /z/. Dont say This can be either /s/ or /z/ or something of that sort. Your child should eventually learn it as simply /s/, /z/. That is, as two sounds, without any elaboration. Similarly, when presenting a digraph, such as sh, for example, just say This is /sh/. Do not say These are /sh/, or These two letters say /sh/, or The s and the h together make the /sh/ sound, or any other variation. Just say This is /sh/. Your child should see a digraph as a single element, and not think of it as two separate letters, so say This is... rather than These are... Later, when you show him the sh card, he should just say /sh/ as his response. When reading or writing, refer to a sound as the first, or second, or even third sound of a letter or digraph. For example, when your child asks about the spelling of want, just say it uses the 3rd sound of /a/ae/o/. If he knows which card is /a/ae/o/ (the letter a), he will understand what you mean. In the full 84-card set, some cards have an extra notation on the back of the card. This will help to distinguish the phonogram from other phonograms. For example, the ve card is called the Ending /v/ since it usually appears at the end of words.

Instructions for Creating the Flash Cards The next 5 pages of this PDF (pages 3 through 7) are the front sides of the flash cards. The last 5 pages (pages 8 through 12) are the back sides of the flash cards. Load card stock that your printer can handle into your printer and print off pages 3 through 7. Note: You might want to experiment with plain paper first so you get the back side orientation correct and dont waste card stock. Then feed the 5 front pages one-by-one while printing out the back pages (pages 8 12) onto the front pages. (You could do the whole process at once, but risk running two sheets through the printer and messing the process up, wasting paper and time.) Finally, carefully cut the 5 sheets into 30 individual flash cards and youre set to go. Note: This PDF can be printed one page at a time on your computer. Its just a matter of knowing how to do it. When you are looking at this PDF in your preview window, select File, then Print, and when the Print Dialogue box appears, it may or may not display the option to select the page(s) to print. If it does not show those options, look for a drop-down list arrow next to your printer description and click it. That should display all of your printer options so that you can print the front pages 3-7 all at once, followed by the back pages, 8-12, one-by-one onto the reverse side of the front pages. Incidentally, I have used cards like these for several years without laminating them and found that it was easier to just reprint new ones if some wore out or were damaged, than to bother with laminating them. That also removed the possibility of glare from the lamination bothering the child (or me.)

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c g
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d o

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qu h
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b i

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k n
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l p

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t w
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u x

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z th
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2 /c/ /d/ den /s/ city cat

1 /a/ /ae/ /o/ hat table want

6 /o/ /oe/ /oo/ hot

5 /g/ cold /j/ do gem gift

/f/

fan

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7 /s/ sit has

/b/

bell

/kw/

queen /z/

12 /i/ /ie/ /ee/ sit

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10 /e/ net she

find ski

/h/

hot /ee/

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/l/

leg

/c/

kind

/j/

jet

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17 /n/ /p/ pin /ng/ bunk net

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/m/

mat

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21 /u/ /ue/ /oo/ /oul/ cut unit

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/t/ truth push

toy

/r/

run

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/ks/

box

/w/

wall

/v/

van

(Call this: The Marker /ks/)

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25 /ee/ happy sky gym

/sh/

shop

/z/

zoo

/ie/ /i/

30 /er/ /err/ herd very

29 /th/ /the/ thing

28 /ch/ /c/ that /sh/ chef chin school

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