Cut out and laminate the wheels for durability. Children can use clothing pegs or paper clips to match pictures to the corresponding sounds. One wheel per A4 page.
The set covers the following vowels and vowel teams:
1. Short Vowels
a (hat, bag, pan, cat, fan); e (web, bed, pen, hen); i (six, fish, pig, pill); o (dog, pot, box, frog); u (bus, hut, mug, sun); ea (head, bread)
2. Long A Vowels
ai (jail, rain, snail, train); ay (tray, pray, play, hay); a-e (snake, cake, ape, plate); ei (rein, vein, reindeer); ea (steak, break); ey (grey, prey); eigh (weigh, sleigh, eight)
3. Long E Vowels
ee (three, tree, feet, bee); ea (seal, tea, read, leaf); ie (priest, thief, shield); ey (key, monkey, money, honey); e-e (athlete, centipede, Chinese)
ew (screw, new, mew, stew); u-e (cube, flute, mule, dune); ou (you, soup, coupon); oo (moon, food, boot, tooth); oo – short u (wood, foot, cook, book); ue (rescue, statue, tissue, glue); ui (fruit, juice, suit)
7. R-Controlled
ar (arm, car, shark, star); er (feather, tiger, spider, letter); ir (skirt, shirt, bird, girl); or (horse, sword, forty, fork); ur (surf, turn, turtle, church); oar (oar(s), roar); ore (store, shore, core); our (court, four, pour)
8. Other Vowel Teams
aw (straw, claw, saw); au (pause, sauce, Australia); oi (boil, coin, oil, oink); oy (toy, boy, joy, oyster); ow (owl, flower, cow); ou (cloud, house, mountain, mouth); ou (sour, hour)
