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PSPKK123December 2, 2014 •  42 Comments

Phonics books for -y, ay, igh, and ai

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Have you seen my sets of free phonics books?  Today I’m sharing set 9!

These free phonics printables will help your child practice reading ai and ay, igh, and -y words. My early reader loves these fun and colorful phonics books!

Do you have a beginning reader who is just starting to sound out words?

Or maybe you have a reader who struggles with sounding it out.  Each word is laborious and painful.  Reading just isn’t fun.

I’m here to help!

These free phonics printables will help your child practice reading ai and ay, igh, and -y words. My early reader loves these fun and colorful phonics books!Enter my phonics readers.

What are they?

  • Short little books that you can download for free.  
  • Books that give focus to a particular phonics pattern (like the ap word family, silent e, or er words)
  • Colorful books with funny pictures
  • Books that use sight words and phonics to create simple, readable text

How can you use them?

  • Use them to give focused attention to a particular phonics pattern.  Does your child have trouble with silent e?  Pull out that set.
  • Are you and your child bored with flashcards?  Try these.  Each new word is all by itself on a page before turning to see the sentence and picture.  It’s like a flashcard, but much more interesting.
  • If you’d like, read the sets in order to give your child a slow and steady introduction to phonics patterns.

These free phonics printables will help your child practice reading ai and ay, igh, and -y words. My early reader loves these fun and colorful phonics books!

Each book starts like this.  See how you have to read the new word before you get a picture clue?

These free phonics printables will help your child practice reading ai and ay, igh, and -y words. My early reader loves these fun and colorful phonics books!

I use silly pictures whenever I can!

These free phonics printables will help your child practice reading ai and ay, igh, and -y words. My early reader loves these fun and colorful phonics books!

Each page has some sight words we’ve already learned (he, eat, his) along with words your child has learned to sound out in previous books (will, hot, dog).  Of course, the focus word is also part of the sentence (plain).

By now you’ve noticed that these are not actual stories.  Rather than force a story with a particular phonics pattern, each book has a series of unrelated sentences.

Here are the rest of the pages in this sample book:

These free phonics printables will help your child practice reading ai and ay, igh, and -y words. My early reader loves these fun and colorful phonics books!

These free phonics printables will help your child practice reading ai and ay, igh, and -y words. My early reader loves these fun and colorful phonics books!

These free phonics printables will help your child practice reading ai and ay, igh, and -y words. My early reader loves these fun and colorful phonics books!

These free phonics printables will help your child practice reading ai and ay, igh, and -y words. My early reader loves these fun and colorful phonics books!

The last page gives your child the opportunity to read each focus word again.  He might need to turn back to look at the pictures for help.

How to assemble:

  • Print pages 2-33 front to back (page 1 is my Terms of Use).  I like to use light cardstock to make the books durable.
  • Separate the stack into each individual book.  Each book consists of two pages front to back.
  • Cut across the horizontal center of the pages.
  • Insert the pages into each other, using the page numbers as a guide.
  • Staple with a long arm stapler.

For a picture tutorial to help you put the books together, visit this post.

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42 Comments

  1. Melissa

    December 6, 2021 at 7:43 pm

    Hi. I have downloaded some of these books in the past and love them. However, I was trying to have some other ones sent to my email in the past couple of days and am not receiving them. Wondering if there’s another way to get them???

    Reply to this comment
    • Laura Cherney

      December 7, 2021 at 8:31 am

      Hi Melissa! This is Laura with Customer Support. Please check your inbox for a trouble-shooting email from us. Thank you! 🙂

      Reply to this comment
  2. Rozanne Pegg

    June 24, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    Hi

    I would like a copy of the free phonics books please.

    Kind regards
    Rozanne Pegg

    Reply to this comment
    • Kate Dowling

      June 25, 2020 at 1:47 pm

      Hi Rozanne!

      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. Please click the green box that says, “CLICK HERE TO GET THE FREE PRINTABLE.” You’ll have a chance to enter your email address, and then the file will be sent to your inbox. We hope you enjoy it!

      Reply to this comment
  3. Sonia

    July 6, 2019 at 4:04 am

    Thanks a lot again ??.. much love ?

    Reply to this comment
  4. shaheen Ehani

    April 12, 2019 at 3:59 am

    i have logged in, recieved your mail, followed the link but didnt find phonic reader. please help

    Reply to this comment
    • Kate Dowling

      April 12, 2019 at 9:49 pm

      Hi Shaheen!

      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. I just tested the link with my own email. After I clicked the green download box on this page, I entered my email address. I found the email from Anna, and I opened my email to find a brown box at the bottom that says, “Click here for your free printable.” Then I clicked it and the file opened up. What happens when you do this?

      Reply to this comment
  5. Angela Procter-Rofe

    March 9, 2019 at 12:07 am

    hi, I am trying to download one of the free phonic reader books. it says it will be emailed soon but it never arrives? thanks angela

    Reply to this comment
    • Kate Dowling

      March 9, 2019 at 8:08 pm

      Hi Angela!

      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. I’m sorry you’re having trouble! Please be sure that you entered your email address correctly, and then check your spam/junk/trash/promotions folders. If you still can’t find it, you might want to try using a different email address. Some teachers have trouble because their school districts have very strong filters that keep files from coming through to their work addresses. Thanks for giving it another try!

      Reply to this comment
  6. Gai

    September 12, 2018 at 10:55 am

    Hi Anna,
    Greetings ! My heartfelt thanks and appreciation for all the things you are posting..it really helps me to supplement my son’s education.
    I want to purchase phonic books on blends , diagraph etc….just the books though and not the worksheets.
    Please do send me a link when you can spare the time .

    Regards ,

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      September 16, 2018 at 3:29 pm

      Hello! I’m sorry, but the bundle come with both the books and games; I don’t offer just one or the other.

      Reply to this comment
  7. Jhalak Sharma

    August 8, 2018 at 11:12 pm

    Hi Anna,
    I wanted to buy the whole Phonic reader set 1 to 24 the small cute books. Could you please help me how do I go about. My email address: Jhalakjain@hotmail.com.au

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      August 9, 2018 at 7:09 am

      I sent you an email. 🙂

      Reply to this comment
  8. Clarice Lomavatu

    March 4, 2018 at 6:07 pm

    Hello Anna,
    I’d like to print your readers for a school in the South Pacific. It is extremely hot and humid in this village school. What would you suggest I do in the assembly of the books to extend the their usage?

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      March 5, 2018 at 2:52 pm

      That’s a great question, Clarice, but I’m really not sure. I wouldn’t laminate them with regular laminate because it will make the pages too stiff to turn. I always print on cardstock and they hold up well, but we do not live in a humid environment.

      Reply to this comment
  9. Lucy

    November 1, 2017 at 10:12 pm

    Thanks so much Anna! Just wonder if Phonics Book Set 8 is missing?

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      November 2, 2017 at 8:02 am

      Is this the set you need? https://www.themeasuredmom.com/new-phonics-books-ee-oo-words-free/

      Reply to this comment
      • Lucy

        November 7, 2017 at 8:46 pm

        Thanks so much, Anna!

        Reply to this comment
  10. Liza

    April 9, 2016 at 8:33 pm

    They are very useful.
    Thanks for sharing the ideas

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      April 11, 2016 at 4:58 pm

      You’re welcome, Liza!

      Reply to this comment
  11. Mariam

    February 8, 2016 at 5:18 am

    Thank you so much. I am yet to use it but finding it alone after searching for a long while now makes me very happy.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      February 11, 2016 at 5:36 pm

      You’re very welcome, Mariam!

      Reply to this comment
  12. Amy@The Learning Corner

    January 12, 2016 at 11:12 am

    I am SO glad I found your website! I love these books. They fit perfectly with my Orton Gillingham instruction while I tutor my students with dyslexia. Thank you for making individual books for each sound. This is so hard to find. I’m very grateful you offer them for free and have such great instructions. Thank you!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      January 13, 2016 at 8:31 pm

      I’m glad you found me, too, Amy, and I’m so happy these work well for your students. I hope you find a lot more here that you can use!

      Reply to this comment
  13. carol

    December 14, 2015 at 2:20 pm

    Thanks for your help with my youngest struggling readers.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      December 19, 2015 at 3:46 pm

      You’re very welcome, Carol!

      Reply to this comment
  14. Elizabeth

    June 24, 2015 at 4:11 pm

    These look amazing. I really need them and I have been unable to open or save them from 3 different computers. I don’t know what the problem is. Is there any way that you can send me a file of these books to see if that way I will be able to print them? Thank you for all of the resources you share.

    Elizabeth

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      June 24, 2015 at 4:23 pm

      Hi, Elizabeth! I’m sorry you’re having trouble. Sending files by e-mail is against my terms of use, but usually there’s an easy fix.

      Two things to try first: Use Chrome as your browser if you aren’t already, and if that doesn’t work RIGHT CLICK on the word HERE and save to your computer first, then open. I have other tips in this post: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/how-to-download-free-files/

      I’d love to know if one of these solutions works for you!

      Reply to this comment
  15. David Lisgo

    April 18, 2015 at 10:26 pm

    Dear Anna,

    The typo is on page 7 of the “igh” book, which is page 21 of “MMPhRdrs-set-9.pdf” Now reading “The man are mad. They fight.”

    David

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      April 29, 2015 at 2:49 pm

      Thank you David, I finally had a chance to fix that typo in my phonics reader. Thanks for catching it!

      Reply to this comment
  16. David Lisgo

    April 16, 2015 at 8:18 am

    Thank you. I love the way you put the target word on the previous page.
    BTW Have you seen the typo? “The man are mad.”

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      April 18, 2015 at 8:03 pm

      Which set is the typo in, David? I’m not finding it.

      Reply to this comment
  17. Edeana

    March 22, 2015 at 3:43 am

    Thank-you! Have just stumbled across your site thanks to Pinterest and it looks like a god sent!

    I have a little girl with ASD, ODD and ADHD. I do my best to try and keep her afloat with what is happening in class.

    LOVING your site! Thank-you!!!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      March 29, 2015 at 5:17 pm

      Hello, Edeana! I’m so glad you’re finding things here to help your little girl (I didn’t quite catch if she’s your daughter or student ;). Blessings on your work with her!

      Reply to this comment
  18. Edeana

    March 22, 2015 at 3:41 am

    Thank-you!!!

    Loving your site! I have a little girl with ASD, ADHD and ODD. Trying to keep her afloat in the classroom. Your site looks like a god sent!

    Reply to this comment
  19. Gloria Jaramillo

    February 6, 2015 at 2:24 pm

    I really loved the books. Thanks so much!!!

    Reply to this comment
  20. Gloria Jaramillo

    February 6, 2015 at 2:23 pm

    I love them!!! Thanks.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      February 6, 2015 at 2:23 pm

      You’re very welcome, Gloria!

      Reply to this comment
  21. kari

    December 4, 2014 at 4:32 pm

    We love your phonics readers. My girls get so excited when you have a new set for us to print out and read. 🙂

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      December 4, 2014 at 5:05 pm

      That makes me very happy, Kari – thank you :).

      Reply to this comment

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