This section provides an overview of the Phonetic Words And Stories books.  To download the PDF files for these books, look under the PDF FILES - BOOKS FOR ALL LEVELS menu heading and go to PDF FILES FOR LEVEL 4 - PHONETIC WORDS AND STORIES 1-8 on the sub-menu .

Level 3 - Short Vowels

At the short vowel level students develop the  following skills.

1. They learn to spell and read short vowel words.
2. They learn the sight words a, A, as, has, was, is, his, and I.
3. They read simple sentences which these sight words along with short vowel words.
4. They listen to Part 2 of the Sound Story and learn the "Beyond The Alphabet" patterns including single long vowels, dotted vowels, and consonant digraphs.  They practice writing the patterns and saying their sounds, but they do not yet read words with these patterns.​​

Books

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Rhyming Short Vowel Words For Beginning Readers
This book includes short vowel words on the right hand page with the related pictures on the left page.  Using these pages, the teacher plays the "Robot Game" with the students to develop an awareness of the separate sounds in the words and the ability to put the sounds together mentally to form a word.  This skill is called oral blending.  Then students read the same words going down two columns.  In the first column, arrows separate the individual letters, making it easy for students to decode (sound out) the word going from left to right.  In the second column, students read the same words without arrows.  The vowels are color-coded.

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Rhyming Short Vowel Words For Beginning Readers
This book includes short vowel words on the right hand page with the related pictures on the left page.  Using these pages, the teacher plays the "Robot Game" with the students to develop an awareness of the separate sounds in the words and the ability to put the sounds together mentally to form a word.  This skill is called oral blending.  Then students read the same words going down two columns.  In the first column, arrows separate the individual letters, making it easy for students to decode (sound out) the word going from left to right.  In the second column, students read the same words without arrows.  The vowels are color-coded.

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Rhyming Short Vowel Words For Beginning Readers
This book includes short vowel words on the right hand page with the related pictures on the left page.  Using these pages, the teacher plays the "Robot Game" with the students to develop an awareness of the separate sounds in the words and the ability to put the sounds together mentally to form a word.  This skill is called oral blending.  Then students read the same words going down two columns.  In the first column, arrows separate the individual letters, making it easy for students to decode (sound out) the word going from left to right.  In the second column, students read the same words without arrows.  The vowels are color-coded.

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Workbooks

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Rhyming Short Vowel Words For Beginning Readers
This book includes short vowel words on the right hand page with the related pictures on the left page.  Using these pages, the teacher plays the "Robot Game" with the students to develop an awareness of the separate sounds in the words and the ability to put the sounds together mentally to form a word.  This skill is called oral blending.  Then students read the same words going down two columns.  In the first column, arrows separate the individual letters, making it easy for students to decode (sound out) the word going from left to right.  In the second column, students read the same words without arrows.  The vowels are color-coded.

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