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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

    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???

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    • Kate Dowling

      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!

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    • Kate Dowling

      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?

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    • Kate Dowling

      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!

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  6. Gai

    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 ,

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  8. Clarice Lomavatu

    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?

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    • Anna G

      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.

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  12. Amy@The Learning Corner

    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!

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  14. Elizabeth

    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

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    • Anna Geiger

      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!

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  17. Edeana

    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!!!

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    • Anna Geiger

      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!

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