Letter Sounds

The 'c' sound as in 's' and 'please'

accuse	advertise	advise	aisle	allusion
alms	always	amends	amuse	antipodes
arouse	arrears	artisan	as	berries
binoculars	browse	bruise	busy	carries
casual	casuarina	cause	causeway	catechise
chastise	cheese	chisel	choose	chose
circumstances	cities	clause	close	clothes
clumsy	collapse	commiserate	compose	comprise
compromise	confuse	copies	cosy	countries
cousin	cries	cruise	demise	deserve
design	dies	dispose	does	dries
downstairs	drowsy	disguise	ease	easily
easy	eaves	ecclesiastical	empties	enclose
espouse	erase	erosion	enterprise	enterprising
exercise	excuse	expose	eyesbusy	flies
franchise	fries	fuse	groceries	growls
has	his	is	knives	hose
leaves	leggings	leisure	lens	lies
loaves	lose	manacles	marries	mausoleum
measles	measure	merchandise	miser	misery
mittens	monotheism	mosaic	movables	munitions
muse	music	musician	muslin	nauseating
news	newsagent	newspaper	noise	noisy
nose	nowise	oppose	otherwise	pause
phase	phrase	physical	physician	physics
pities	pleasant	pleasantry	please	pleasure
plausible	poison	poise	poppies	position
praise	premises	present	presently	preserve
president	presume	presumptuous	prison	prisoner
profuse	propose	proposal	prose	prosaic
protoplasm	provision	raise	raisin	raising
recognise	refuse	repose	reprisal	resemble
resent	reserve	reserved	reservoir	reside
resign	resolute	resort	resourceful	result
resume	resurrection	revise	rise	rose
rosella	rosette	rouse	ruse	scales
studies	suppose	sure	tailings	tease
teaspoon	textiles	themselves	those	thousand
tidings	ties	tongs	towards	transit
translate	translucent	transmit	transparent	transplant
transport	transpose	treason	treasure	treasurer
tresses	tries	trousers	Tuesday	turquoise
tweezers	unawares	upstairs	usual	usually
use	usury	vase	ventriloquism	vespers
victuals	vision	visage	visible	visit
visitor	was	weaknesses	weasel	whose
wise	wisdom	witnesses	wolves

Three Letter 'a' words as in 'cat'

Three Letter 'a' words as in 'cat'

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When a child first enters a teacher's care they have a reasonable vocabulary and they are using most of the sounds that we use in the english language. What they can't do is break words into the individual sounds and to write the representation for each particular sound.

The word reservoirs are not a prescriptive list of words that children need to know. Rather they are a list of words from which you can choose appropriate examples of sounds that need to be taught. For example if we choose to word 'at' we are in fact teaching the representation of two sounds the 'a' and the 't'. If a child can identify the two letters in 'at', they have the basis of identifying the representation of the three sounds in the word 'cat'. Therefore, when I teach 'cat', I am reviewing the word 'at'. I will draw attention to the word by asking the children if they can see a word that we've talked about before in the word 'cat'.

'si' as ‘sh’ e.g. mission

Words with si-mission, si-vision, ‘si’ as ‘sh’

Phonograms

adhesion	admission	cohesion	collusion	concession
confession	confusion	commission	compassion	compulsion
decision	depression	dimension	discussion	division
emulsion	erosion	especially	evasion	expansion
explosion	expression	expulsion	extension	fission
impression	incision	indecision	lesion	invasion
mansion	mission	missionary	omission	passion
passionate	pension	permission	pollution	profession
provision	revision	succession	session	tension
version	vision

The ‘sh’ Sound.

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list of ‘sh’ words as in ‘shop’

Three Letter 'c' words as in 'cat'

Phonogram Directory

cat	cab	cap	cut	cup
cad	cub	cot	cod	cop
cog	cud	con	act	cox
sac	car	cow	cue	sic
coy	cry	arc	cur	caw

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The 'c' sound as in 's' and 'please'

Three Letter 'a' words as in 'cat'

'si' as ‘sh’ e.g. mission

The ‘sh’ Sound.

Three Letter 'c' words as in 'cat'

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cat	cab	cap	cut	cup
cad	cub	cot	cod	cop
cog	cud	con	act	cox
sac	car	cow	cue	sic
coy	cry	arc	cur	caw

cat	cab	cap	cut	cup
cad	cub	cot	cod	cop
cog	cud	con	act	cox
sac	car	cow	cue	sic
coy	cry	arc	cur	caw

cat	cab	cap	cut	cup
cad	cub	cot	cod	cop
cog	cud	con	act	cox
sac	car	cow	cue	sic
coy	cry	arc	cur	caw