Explicit Teaching (E.T.) Cards - Vowel Teams Digital Download

Print, Assemble & Teach!

Explicit Instruction Made Easy. Just Flip, Teach, and Review!

Take the guesswork out of teaching vowel teams with Reading Rev's E.T. (Explicit Teaching) Cards! These ready-to-print cards make it easy to introduce, model, and review vowel team patterns through clear, systematic instruction.

Each card features a vowel team, its corresponding sound, and a memorable key word and picture to help students connect abstract sound-symbol relationships to familiar examples.

The best part? The instructional cues are designed to appear on the back of the preceding card! Simply print, cut, and bind your deck. Then flip through the cards, display the pattern to your students, and read the teaching cue facing you.

What Makes These Cards Special?

• Print & Make: Download the PDF, print on cardstock, cut, and spiral-bind along the top edge to create your own teaching deck.

• Built-In Teaching Cues: Teacher-facing prompts include spelling generalizations, word examples, and positional patterns.

• Visual Anchors: Key words and pictures help students remember sound-symbol correspondences when decoding and spelling.

• Systematic & Sequential: Aligned with the Reading Rev Phonics, Spelling, & Morphology Program scope and sequence.

• Easy, Ongoing Review: Flip through previously taught patterns 2–3 times per week to strengthen retention and automaticity.

How to Use

Introduce: Explicitly teach a new vowel team or vowel team pair, using the cards to model sounds, spellings, and word patterns.

Investigate: Use the cards as visual anchors during word sorts, spelling investigations, and decoding practice.

Review: Build automaticity with quick, consistent review of previously taught vowel teams.

Printing & Assembly

1. Print double-sided on cardstock, selecting Flip on Short Edge.

2. Cut each page exactly in half horizontally.

3. Arrange cards in numerical order using the page numbers.

4. Spiral-bind along the top (long) edge. Laminate before binding for added durability.

Each finished card measures approximately 8.5 × 5.5 inches.

Less Prep. More Teaching.

Whether you're introducing a new vowel team or reinforcing previously learned patterns, E.T. Cards put the instructional support you need right at your fingertips.

Flip it. Teach it. Review it. Repeat!

Important Purchase Information

This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD (PDF), not a physical product. Printing, cutting, and binding are required.

Already own the Reading Rev Phonics, Spelling, & Morphology Program? These E.T. Vowel Team Cards are already included in your program resources. There is no need to purchase them separately!

Prefer a ready-to-use version? Check out our professionally printed and spiral-bound E.T. Vowel Team Cards, available separately.

Use these cards in several ways. As you introduce a new concept, use them to anchor a sound to a letter and key picture. Then, use the cards as a review deck. Going through the cards 2-3 times per week solidifies student learning. This can be done electronically and remotely!

Please note - this is a digital product you will download after purchase and nothing will be shipped. This purchase is for personal use only and to be used by one classroom only.