OnTrack Reading

Vowel Sounds - 1 Syllable

On this Page of the Guide you will find PDF files that you can download listing one-syllable words containing specific vowel sounds. The list for each vowel sound is organized by spellings of the sound.

Words with more difficult consonant spellings are placed lower on each list. At the end of each segment of a list, words containing consonant spellings that are not explicitly taught in the OnTrack Reading curriculum are indicated with an asterisk (*). In addition, words containing consonant spellings that are considered so irregular that they should not be taught as consistent spellings of a sound are marked with a double asterisk (**).

The lists on this page are organized in the order of presentation in the OnTrack Reading curriculum. Vowel sounds like /ow/ and /oe/ are clustered together, and taught one after the other, to make it clear how the spellings overlap across sounds in English. For example, the digraph ow can be the /ow/ sound in cow or the /oe/ sound in crow.

Group 1: /a/e/i/o/u/ (Basic Code Only)

Download the A (cAt) Sound Word List

Download the E (rEd) Word List

Download the I (hIt) Word List

Download the O (hOt) Word List

Download the U (cUt) Word List

Group 2: /ar/or/

Download the AR Sound Word List

Download the OR Sound Word List

Group 3: /ow/oe/

Download the OW Sound Word List

Download the OE Sound Word List