Dr. Jill T. Hendricks · Doctor of Education
A free phonics app and a workbook series for children just beginning to read — built by a teacher, tested in real classrooms.
Tap any vowel to open the app. No sign-up, no cost, works on your phone.
Free printable
One page from Series 1 — trace the letter, name the pictures, sound it out. Enter your email and I'll send it over.
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Short A — tracing, picture match, and first words. Letter-size, prints on any home printer.
Why teachers and parents use it
Pre-K through 2nd grade. Tear off a page, send it home, and a parent can help without needing a lesson plan or an explanation.
Every worksheet has a name and date line at the top, so completed work is easy to collect, file, and show at a conference.
Letter recognition, then letter sounds, then blending into words. Nothing skipped and nothing taught out of sequence.
A four-year-old can begin here and walk into kindergarten already knowing their letters and the sounds they make.
Pictures carry the meaning on every page, so a child builds vocabulary and sound together instead of one before the other.
Each page stands on its own. Use one for a quick practice session or several for a full lesson — nothing has to be done at once.
The workbooks
The app teaches the sounds. The workbooks take a child from letter recognition all the way to reading — page by page, in order.
The first book. Alphabet order, letter sounds, and the five short vowels, with tracing and picture work on every page. Best for ages 4–8 and for children learning English.
View on AmazonAll five series in one volume — short vowels, consonants, blends, and beyond. A full year of phonics for homeschool, classroom, or after-school practice.
View on AmazonWho made this
I'm an educator with a doctorate in education, and I wrote this series because I kept meeting children who had been handed worksheets without ever being taught the sounds underneath them.
Every page is sequenced the way reading is actually learned, and every sound in the app is my own voice — so the letter a child traces on paper is the same sound they hear on screen.