Guide Card

The first card in the set is a helpful guide for using the Sound Hunts.

• The front of the card features a guide to the other 39 cards in the set, which focus on all 45 sounds of English.
• The back of the card explains how to use the activities and provides an overview of Joy Allcock’s speech-to-sounds-to-print approach, which allows students to very quickly learn the alphabetic code of English.

Sound Hunt Cards

The set includes 39 A3-size Sound Hunt Cards with a detailed illustration on the front that gives students the opportunity to search for the sounds of English in different positions in words, such as the /k/ sound in kiwi, bucket, and duck. A sentence to read and integrated activities on the back of each card build a variety of foundational literacy skills, including:

• Oral language and vocabulary
• Isolating and pronouncing phonemes
• Blending phonemes
• Learning phoneme-grapheme relationships
• Decoding
• Recognising high-frequency words
• Print knowledge

A few sounds that occur less frequently are combined into a single card, but students always work with one sound at a time.

Digital and Printable Versions

Digital and printable versions of the Sound Hunts are included with the complete set for interactive and flexible use.

• The digital versions allow the illustrations and sentences to be projected for the whole class.
• The printable versions give students the chance to hunt for images containing the focus sound on their own and to practise reading using the phoneme-grapheme relationships and high-frequency words they have learned.