The 44 Phonemes

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The 44 Phonemes

Consonants
Phoneme Most Common Other Common Graphemes
(Speech Sound) Grapheme (Letters or groups of letters that represent common spellings)

/b/ ball ribbon

/d/ dog add filled

/f/ fan cliff phone laugh calf often

/g/ go egg ghost guest catalogue

/h/ hat who

/j/ jet cage giraffe edge soldier exaggerate

/k/ kitten cat duck school occur antique folk box (x = /k/ /s/)

/l/ leg bell

/m/ monkey summer climb autumn palm

/n/ nest funny knee gnat pneumonia

/p/ pig happy

/r/ run carrot write rhyme

/s/ sun mess city rice horse science psychology

/t/ top letter stopped Thomas

/v/ van of five Stephen

/w/ web why quick choir

/y/ yes opinion hallelujah

/z/ zebra buzz cheese has scissors xylophone please

Short Vowel Sounds


/a/ cat laugh

/e/ bed bread

/i/ if

/o/ hot

/u/ mug

Adapted from Honig, B., Diamond, L., Gutlohn, L., (2013) Teaching Reading Sourcebook.
Novato, California: Arena Press.

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The 44 Phonemes
Long Vowel Sounds
Phoneme Most Common Other Common Graphemes
(Speech Sound) Grapheme (Letters or groups of letters that represent common spellings)

/ā/ take bacon day train they eight vein

/ē/ me these beat feet key chief baby

/ī/ tie ride light fly pie

/ō/ open note boat soul row

/ū/ human use few

Other Vowel Sounds


/o͞ o/ cook put could

/o͝ o/ moon truth rule

/ow/ cow out

/oy/ toy coin

/aw/ paw haul brought

R-Controlled Vowel Sounds


/är/ car

/ār/ air chair bear

/ir/ mirror here cheer

/ôr/ for

/ûr/ burn first fern heard work

Consonant Digraphs
/th/ - not voiced think

/th/ - voiced this

/ng/ wing monkey

/sh/ ship mission chef motion special ocean machine

/ch/ chair match future question

/zh/ garage measure television

/hw/ or /wh/ what

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