Table Of Contents for the book: 9,000 Phonetic Words / buy a book

Note that we have replaced the book-word "rules" with the website-word "patterns". It seems that most teachers do not like the word "rules".

Read Pages 151 and 152 first

Page................................ Contents

2 ............Introduction
3 ........... Background and Evolution of the Easy-To-Read words
5............ Table Of Contents (this page)
6............ Memory Words: words that are common and hard to sound-out
6............ Numerals and keyboard symbols (scroll down at link)
7............ Index to Letter-combinations, plus a Speech-Sound Table
8 ........... Syllables and syllabication
8 to 61... Letters and Letter-combinations -- selected as Easy-To-Read (links are at "Index", page 7)
62......... Selected Easy-To-Read CVC words in alphabetical order
63......... CVC AND VC words in phrases
64 ........ Easy-To-Read phrases with short words (not linked here)
65......... Mostly Easy-To-Read CVC sentences -- good for assessment timing
66......... 2-word phrases, CVC and Memory Words
67......... Easy-To-Read “and” phrases (The words at this link are on the website and not in the book. A slightly different list is in the book.)
68......... 3-letter-word mini-rhymes
69-70... 3-word phrases, all use Easy-To-Read words
71......... 4-, 5-, & 6-word phrases
72......... Easy-to-read longer phrases
73-75... More longer phrases and sentences
75......... Selected Easy-To-Read headlines from the NY Times
76 - 80.. Easy-To-Read sentences / More sentences
81 ..........INDEX to hundreds of single syllable rhyme-sets
82 -101. Common one-syllable rhyme sets (links are at the index on page 81)
102 ....... Appendix index
103........ The 120 most common printed words in the English language.
104 ....... The 106 most common words written by children
105........ Using the Alphabetic Principle to teach little Lou Costello how to read.
106........ Reading the long vowels (not linked on the website)
107........ Speech-sound table and discussion
108........ Speech-sounds are essentially self-taught and self-correcting
108........ The Letter Song. Sing it to the tune of A You’re Adorable (not linked on this site)
109........ Teaching the sounds of words: an essay
110-111 Suggestions for making lesson-plans
112........ The next step: 55 long-vowel, magic “e”, single-syllable rhyme-sets
113......... Linked Table Of Contents
114-149. The complete list of Phonetic Words
151......... Summary of the spelling patterns for the system
152..........How this list of easy-to-read words came to be