B-05 Vowel Sounds & Spellings (Full Product = 90 page Activities & Ideas Book with 60, 80 & 88-Card Decks)

Description: Vowel Sounds & Spellings are among the most challenging areas in language development. Whether you're a teacher or a learner, this product is essential for understanding and mastering these intricacies. The Word-&-Picture Cards offer a hands-on and engaging approach to help you excel in pronunciation, reading, and spelling. The accompanying Activities & Ideas Book provides a wealth of pedagogy and instructions for effective learning. Key Components: Three (3) packs of leveled Picture/Word Cards arranged into 57 "Quartets" 90-page Activities & Ideas Book Pages: 142 pages Who They're For: Students aged 5-8 Secondary school students Young adults Adult learners What They Are:  three (3) packs of leveled Picture/Word Cards arranged into 57 "Quartets" (sets of four-of-a-kind vocabulary items containing identical vowel sounds); also a 90-page Activities & Ideas Book of product description, pedagogy, prep + activity steps, game rules + variations, reference lists, language-skills lessons, and more  Why You Need Them:  In regard to pronunciation, oral reading, and orthography, Vowel Sounds & Spellings are among the most complicated areas of vocabulary or language-skills development. Supported and enhanced by info and instruction from the accompanying 90-page Activities & Ideas Book, these 288 Word-&-Picture Cards will help reduce the confusion, frustration, and pain that often arises when tackling the patterns and rules of instruction related to vowels.     What The Activities & Ideas Book Does:  outlines, practices, and helps learners retain the phonemic system of 15 to 22 distinct American-English vowel sounds, with regular, alternative, and exceptional spellings in representative one- and multi-syllable vocabulary items  proposes preparatory "lessons" in which you show the items while modeling and pointing out salient features of their articulation, getting learners to produce them comprehensibly   use the technique of "Oral Vocabulary Quizzes" to connect items with their Parts of Speech, meanings, and uses in context, inserting "Mini-Lessons" in Grammar & Structure when useful conduct "preview" activities for phonetic and graphemic awareness by having learners identify, distinguish, and compare sounds & spellings  "teach" subject matter in stages by starting with the function of vowels as syllable nuclei; comparing simple("short")--and then complex ("long") vowel sounds with one another before contrasting them in larger groupings; reviewing what's helpful to know about voiced vs. voiceless and other consonants; showing and telling learners what they need in regard to syllable-stress patterns of words lists all 288 items in a 10-page Vowel-Sounds Chart highlighting vowel spellings; locates them in the 3 leveled Card Packs; explains and illustrates pronunciation in diagrams, and shows exceptions; later displays many more relevant vocabulary items to consider gives a "mini-course" on recognizing, using, and classifying words of 4 different parts of speech that not only teaches the concept but also integrates it into lessons/activities targeting Vowel Sounds & Spellings   instructs users on how to enjoy the materials in ten (10) different classic competitive card games; suggests additional activities like "Fill-in Spelling Tests," "Finding Vowels," "Vowel Bingo/Lotto," "Path-Board Games," and "Brainstorming.  What The Word & Picture Cards Do:   divide pertinent learning points into "levels of challenge" by organizing them into 3 separate (but reducible or combinable) card packs:                       a Beginning Pack of 60 one-syllable items--most in the basic Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (CVC) "closed syllable" pattern--containing the 15 most frequent, recognizable sounds in this order: ă ĕ ĭ ŏ a:(r) ŭ ooû(r) ā ē  ī ō ū ou oi.   an Intermediate Pack of 20 sets of four different one-syllable words--with regular, less common, and unusual spellings of the 15 vowels listed above--plus20 additional cards (5 sets of four) containing ô  â(r) ī(r) ō:(r) ū(r), for a total of 20distinct sounds  an Advanced Pack containing items with all previous vowel sounds in stressed syllables of polysyllabic items--plus two more: aĭ(r) and aŭ(r), targeting 22 sounds in all  contain 288 Card Faces of unique design that display parts of speech, pronunciation in 2 kinds of sound-symbols, illustrations of word meanings, and the items themselves--with relevant letter-spellings underlined and stressed syllables in larger type. They also indicate by shading and stars (***) which items are especially challenging to learn or unusual.