Alphabet Letter U Words to Read: Short u & Long u is part of the Kindie Phonics™ Learn to Read Series Even very young children can learn to read. The Kindie Phonics™ Learn to Read series has been designed with the singular goal of helping preschoolers, kindergarteners and first graders quickly become independent strategic readers. Kindie Phonics™ Alphabet Letter Books target one letter of the alphabet at a time . Every book includes 38 words for plenty of reading practice to connect and reinforce letters and sounds. Kindie Phonics™ Alphabet Letter Books include important vowel and consonant sounds. There are five vowels (a, e, i, o, u) in the English alphabet while all the rest of the letters are consonants. Kindie Phonics™ alphabet letter books include both the short & long vowels sounds , as well as the hard & soft sounds for consonant letters c and g . You don’t need to be a reading teacher to successfully teach a child how to read. Our books are very user-friendly, so homeschooling parents, grandparents, and others can feel confident teaching children to read. That being said . . . literacy professionals will likely enjoy one of our most helpful book features. Our books make it easy to highlight phonics word patterns for beginner readers. The targeted vowels in our books are printed in red while the targeted consonants are printed in blue. For those who like to use red & blue magnetic alphabet letters for phonics word work, our books help connect phonics skill practice to reading real text. Our books SHOW children how words are similar in order to escalate reading progress. The words in our books are intentionally grouped and organized to show early readers commonalities between words. It’s important for novice readers to notice that words are not all separate unrelated things. Smaller words are often contained within much larger words. Learning a small word can often help decode a more complex word such as a compound word or larger words containing prefixes and suffixes. When new readers start recognizing meaningful chunks of words, rather than just isolated sounds, they quickly escalate their reading progress. Photographs help build strong reading comprehension. High interest STEM/STEAM friendly photographs provide picture clues for every word of text to help early readers decode tricky words and develop strong comprehension. Photos greatly help children problem solve the words that stretch reading vocabulary and provide extra challenge. Kindie Phonics™ books focus on highly generalized (most consistent) phonics. Instead of confusing beginner readers with complicated phonics rules, we provide real words for kids to read which generally follow phonics rules. There will be plenty of opportunity for teaching the many rule-breaking words later on. Successful reading creates successful readers. When children experience early success with real reading, they want to read more. As beginner readers read more, they become even more skilled readers. Kindie Phonics™ books are designed to help beginning readers build a strong foundation on early reading success. Please note that Kindie Phonics™ books have been designed for an American audience. The spelling of words, pronunciations, and photographs are geared toward preschool, kindergarten, and first grade children learning to read in the U.S. Ages 3-6 40 pages 8.5" x 8.5" trim size