Phonic Flash Cards

My 5 year was struggling when I asked him to read a sentence. He knew all the letter sounds and was able to sound out the words, but, when an entire sentence was laid out before him in his workbook, he was overwhelmed. He couldn't get through the first few words.

I like the way Horizon Phonics, by Alpha Omega, is presented. And my son loves working through his workbook, so I didn't want to give that up. I decided to created flash cards to correlate with his lessons. The flash cards are working great!

I started with white flash cards then added green. The colors are really irrelevant.

We learned two sight words, then short vowels followed by consonant digraphs.

Consonant digraphs are two letters put together that represent a new sound. So far, we have learned th, sh, ch and wh.
I circled the consonant digraphs to help him.

I circled the double letters to help him recognize to read them as one.
Next we went on to consonant blends and words with the silent e rule.

A consonant blend is two or three consonants blended together, each consonant sound may be heard in the blend. We have learned bl, br, cl and cr.
As we learn new rules, we also learn how to decode words. Below is how to decode the silent e rule, (a word with a vowel, consonant and an e at the end).
When we are done with our work book, we take the flash cards and create our own sentences by lining up the flash cards across the table. We work together in making complete sentences.