For years, as a special ed teacher, I watched my students struggle so long and hard to learn their letters and sounds. Using some solid research about reading interventions for dyslexic, ADD and ELL students, and a lot of trial and error, I developed a set of alphabet cards. Each letter has a picture, a sound and a motion. The cards were so successful, that I decided to go to the next level and make a set of digraph and vowel pattern cards. The students rely heavily on the pictures at first, bu