Using Phonics to Learn Over 450 Sight Words can help beginning readers learn, in as little as a year, the high frequency words taught in prekindergarten through third-grade while also developing their phonics skills. Most of the 450 plus sight words have been organized by their vowel sounds and spelling patterns for students to sound out. With the turn of each page, students are introduced to a new vowel sound and common spelling patterns that are used to make the sound. Each spelling pattern of the vowel sound has been color-coded differently. On the cover page, blue was used for the "o" in such words as "dog" and "gone" and red for the "aw" in the words "draw" and "saw." Different colors were used for additional spelling patterns of the short "o" sound. Vowel sounds students will have practice decoding with these materials are listed below. (Note that you can click on the ear icon to hear the sound from your eBook.)* sounds of "y" (funny, cry)* short vowel sounds* long vowel sounds* vowel sounds effected by a final "e" (ate, these, ride, home, use)* double vowel patterns (wait, eat, see, coat, blue)* CV and CCV Words (we, she)* special vowels \ü\ (room) and u\ (book)* diphthongs \ou\ (out, cow) and \oi\ (oil, boy)* r-controlled vowels \ar\ (barn), \or\ (corn), and \ər\ (teacher)In addition, alphabet flashcards are included in this book to help students learn the alphabet sounds (a prerequisite to sounding out the words), as well as flashcards for teaching soft "c" and "g," consonant blends, and the consonant digraphs "ch," "sh," "th," and "gh," which they will encounter when decoding the words. For additional information about this book and how to use it, see the preface beginning on page 2.