![]() Recently we’ve discovered that some people aren’t keen on ‘y/yoga’, so we’ve added this nice y/yawn mnemonic to the set. Our original ‘e/egg’, ‘o/orange’ and ‘u/undies’ mnemonics were OK for Australian English, but ‘e/echo’, ‘o/octopus and ‘u/up’ were needed for speakers of US English. Over time, we’ve created alternate versions of some mnemonics, thanks to feedback from purchasers, and in an effort to cater to a surprisingly large audience. Click here to download a zipped folder of the whole set. This should make it easy to organise them into any phonics teaching sequence, and print customised materials for any group of beginning readers. We’re therefore making high-resolution versions of the picture files (.png files, for both PC and Apple) available for people to download and use in creating resources for their own students/caseloads/children. We aren’t designers, and already have full-time jobs. If you know of an interested publisher, we’d love to hear from them! Even designing and producing all the downloadable resources people have suggested would be a full-time job for quite a while. Sadly, we don’t have capacity to print, store and mail out lots of hard copy resources containing our mnemonics. ![]() The Science of Reading community is a creative one. They’ll even make an appearance on The US Reading League’s Reading Buddies TV show at some stage. Since devising the Spelfabet Embedded Picture Mnemonics, illustrator Cat Macinnes and I have received many requests for products containing them: bookmarks, placemats, friezes, flip charts, cards and posters of different sizes, slideshows, you name it. Example bookmarks for Sounds-Write beginners, whipped in a word processor table in about 30 mins.
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