The activities in this book provide an excellent source of phonics practice for primary students. The pages can be used as drill reinforcement or as independent instructional material. The whimsical pictures help to motivate students to learn through a variety of activities. These activities include tracing and writing, coloring, cutting and pasting, matching, and puzzles. Review pages are included, as well as an awards page at the end of the book for added motivation. In this book, students will learn about unusual consonant sounds and their spellings, and unusual vowel sounds (other than long and short). Therefore, the teacher may want to give more initial instruction before presenting some of the pages. Students will learn the more unusual sounds of vowels, exceptions, and also the diacritical markings for their sounds.

Contents: Q as a Beginning Sound; X as a Final Sound; Hard and Soft C Sounds; Hard and Soft SC Sounds; Hard and Soft G Sounds; Review Q, X, Hard/Soft C and G; Recognizing Different Sounds of C, G, K, S, J; Sounds of /n/; Sounds of GH; Sounds of /f/; /f/ Crossword; Sounds of S; Sounds of CH; Sounds of SH; T Followed by U Sound; Recognizing Silent Letters; Rhyming Silent Letter Words; Spelling Silent Letter Words; Cross Out Silent Letters; Circle Silent Letters; Writing Diacritical Words; Writing Words from Diacritical Markings; Answering Diacritical Questions; Reading a Diacritical Story; Writing a Diacritical Story; Double Consonant Endings; Initial Sound of Blend DR; Initial Sound of Blend TR; Initial Sound of Blends BL, BR; Initial Sound of Blends CL, CR; Review QU, DR, TR, BL, BR, CL, CR; Initial Sound of Blends FL, FR; Initial Sound of Blends GL, GR; Initial Sound of Blends PL, PR; Review FL, FR, GL, GR, PL, PR; Initial Sound of Blends SM, ST, SC, SW; Initial Sound of Blends SN, SP, SK, SL; Review Initial Blends; Final Blend Sounds; Initial Sound of Digraph CH; Initial Sound of Digraph SH; Initial Sound of Digraphs TH, WH; Review Initial Digraphs; Final Digraph Sounds; Three-Letter Blends; Review Initial Blends; Review Initial Blends and Digraphs; Review Initial Blends and Final Blends and Digraphs; A Controlled R Sound; O Controlled by R Sound; AR and OR Sounds; Sounds of ER, IR, UR; Diacritical Markings for R-Controlled Vowels; R-Controlled Sentences; EA Followed by R Sounds; Five Sounds of R-Control; Sounds of AU, AL, AW; Sounds of OO; Sounds of OI; AU, AL, AW, OO, OI Sounds; Two Sounds of EA; Sounds of IE; Hearing Long and Short I, E, Long U Sounds; I and E Sounds Puzzle; Exceptions to Rules; Long O and OW; OU Spelling and Sounds; Long O Puzzle; OU Puzzle; More OU Spelling and Sounds; Recognizing OU Spelling Sounds; Spellings that Make the Sound Heard in Fool; OO and O Puzzles; Completion Award; Answer Key