Easy-To-Read: letter combinations

Alphabetic lists of all the EASY-TO-READ WORDS can be found starting here

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46 Easy-To-Read letters and letter-combinations These 46 letter-combinations and the 26 alphabet letters stand for all the vowel sounds in the easy-to-read words
WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN WE SAY A WORDS IS PHONETIC?? Words are phonetic if they follow patterns that say they are phonetic. The most common pattern is, "in a CVC word the vowel is a 'short' vowel". Words that follow that pattern are, BY DEFINITION "phonetic". Words that do not follow the pattern -- "was", "say", "saw" and "car" , for instance, are not phonetic and have to be treated as memory-words (others call them sight-words).The idea is to recognize logical patterns and then pick words that follow those patterns. We have basically set about 85 patterns -- 26 are alphabetic and the others are based on letter-combination patterns and the position of certain letters. For instance, in all words that end in "e", the "e" is silent. If a word ends in "e" and that "e" is not silent -- we do not put it on our list. "Passe" and "posse", therefor are not on our list of phonetic words.
When not within the combinations below; (a) all consonants are pronounced conventionally and (b) all vowels are “short” -- see page 107 You only need two patterns to pronounce the various words: (1) when a vowel is “on its own”, it is short and (2) when it is part of a letter-combination, it gives up its sound to the sound of the combination.
letters	sample words..................................................speech-sounds	page in book
‘a’ 'a’ ending ‘ai’ & ‘ay’ ‘air’ & ‘aer’ ‘all’ ‘ally’ ‘ar’ ‘au’ & ‘aw’ ‘ch’ ‘e’ ending 'e' ending #2 ‘ea’ & ‘ee’ ‘ear’ ‘ed’ ending ‘er’, ‘ir’, ‘ur’ ‘ice’ ‘ie’ ‘ine’ ‘ing’ ‘ink’ ‘kn’ ‘ir’ -- see ‘er’ ‘le’ ending ‘o’ ending ‘oa’ & ‘oe’ ‘oi’ & ‘oy’ ‘oo’ & ‘ue’ ‘ook’ ‘or’ ‘ou’ & ‘ow’ ‘qu’ ‘sh’ ‘sky’ ‘th’ (unvoiced) ‘th’ (voiced) ‘ue’ see ‘oo’ ‘ur’ -- see ‘er’ ‘wh’ ‘wr’ ‘y’ beginning ‘y’ middle ‘y’ ending	See pages 6 and 107............................................................/a/, /aa/ or /u/ camera, data, hula, Santa, Africa, America ......................../u/ aid, attain, brain, clay, Sunday, way ..................................../aa/ air, attain, hair, pair, aeronaut, stairwell ............................../air/ ball, call, fall, hall, mall, pall, stall, tall, ‘yall .........................../all/ normally, orally, royally, typically, verbally .........................../u.l.ee/ bar, card, carnivore, cartoon, farm, start ............................/ar/ auto, fault, laundry, paws, pause, saw, vault ....................../aw/ batch, catch, chat, chart, chicken, lynch ............................./ch/ are, give, love, subjective, were .........................................‘e’ is silent be, he, me, she, we, ye........................................................'e' is a long vowel /ee/ beetle, see, sea, speech, team ........................................../ee/ ear, fear, gear, nearest, yearling ......................................../ear/ armed, barked, mopped, slapped, squirreled .................‘e’ is silent absurd, burp, her, fur, furnish, sir, stir ................................./ur/ ice, ice-cream, nice, twice ................................................../ice/ lie, pie, cried, fries, ratified, verified .................................../ii/ mine, wine -- See page 34 for a discussion ...................../ine/ king, sing, spring, swing, thing, twinkling .........................../ing/ blink, dinky, kink, pink, stink, inkling .................................../ink/ knack, knead, knee, knit, knot, knuckle .............................‘k’ is silent bottle, dawdle, doodle, wrinkle, giggle, rattle ..................../u.l/ gecko, go, hello, limo, no, no-no, so, yo-yo ......................./oo/ boat, coast, coax, doe, poem, toast, toe ........................../oo/ boil, boy, coins, oil, spoiled, toilet, toys ............................./oy/ blue, cool, cruel, glue, glued, too, true, zoo ......................./uu/ book, cook, hook, look, nook, rook, took ........................../uuh.k/ born, Ford, gordo, gorilla, more, sort ................................/or/ cow, how, brown, cloud, mouse, owl, proud ...................../ow/ liquid, squirm, squireled, quit, queen .................................k/w dish, fisherman, she, shout, splash, wish .........................../sh/ skycap, skyed, skyhook, skyline, skyway ........................../s.k.ii/ bath, mouth, thick, thin, thousand ......................................./th/ that, the, their, them ............................................................/thh/ what, when, where, who, why ............................................./w/ wrecked, wrench, wring, wrist, wrong ................................/r/ yellow, yen, yes, yet ............................................................./y/ abyss, hymn, myth, system ................................................./i/ badly, blurry, bumpy, bunny, sunny, yucky ........................./ee/	107 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 16 17-21 22 23-28 29-31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38-40 41 42 43 44 45 46-47 48 49 50 141 51 51 52 53 149 54 55-61