You can print out these practice sheets and use them yourself, or if you are a teacher, you can use them with your class. The important thing is for students to learn how to connect the sounds with the letters in the words.

vowel sounds

consonant sounds

Teachers: All of the words in these exercises are real words. (At least 99% of them are real!). I have found that these exercises are also useful for learning new vocabulary. It's certainly not the primary focus, but students might ask you what "carve" means among the "ar" words.

Also, I'm not an expert in the area of teaching pronunciation. It's never been the focus of my teaching because I think people develop these skills naturally; however, there are some sounds represented by particular letters that cause problems for students--especially if the alphabet in their first language is different from the Latin alphabet.

If you have suggestions for how any of this can be improved upon, I welcome your ideas.

Feel free to make photocopies!