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Text Decoder and Analyzer

The purpose of this tool is to help you assess which phonetic concepts appear in a word, sentence, or short story contains. This can be helpful if you want to make sure the texts you give students covers the concepts you've taught.

Here's a video to show you how to use the tool. The video uses and artificial voice, because I really didn't want to record my own voice.

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Word List Generator

This tool helps create phonetically controlled word lists that match what students have learned.

Here's a video to show you how to use the tool. The video uses and artificial voice, because I really didn't want to record my own voice.

Story and Sentence Generator

This tool generates and analyzes decodable text. You can use this tool to set phonetic controls, specify any key phonograms you want to focus on, and outline other requirements. The AI will then generate a story or a set of sentences for you to read. The AI might include words that are not phonetically controlled. This tool will highlight those problematic words, bold the words that use key phonograms, and underline sight words or irregular words. You can also use this tool to analyze text according to the requirements you've set.

Here's a video to show you how to use the tool. The video uses and artificial voice, because I really didn't want to record my own voice.

Patterns Filter

Pattern Keys

The patterns filter allows you to specify which phonetic patterns you want the tool to look for.

C: single letter consonants
(C): optional single letter consonants (ex: (C)VC will match "cat" and "at")
C(irr): irregular consonants (s in sugar)
[CC]: digraphs like ck, ch, th, etc.
V: single letter vowels
V(l) or L: long vowels
V(s) or S: short vowels
[VV]: vowel teams like ee, ea, oy, etc. Use [VVV] for three letter vowel teams like igh.
[VR]: r-controlled vowel clusters like ar, er, air, etc. Use [V+R], [V++R], etc. for longer clusters
V(irr): irregular vowels (o in son)
VCe: magic e pattern where the e makes the first vowel say its name
VCe(irr): irregular magic e pattern (o in some)

Wild Cards

Use ~ to represent any number of letters and add * to the end of a pattern to indicate it can be used anywhere in a word. Examples:

~an returns can, ran, tan, etc.
an~ returns ant, and (will not return "an" since it doesn't any letters after the "an")
an returns just an
an* returns ant, and, tan, an, etc.

Examples

Here are some examples of how to use the patterns filter:

Pattern	Examples	Description
CVC	cat	Limit to single letter vowels and consonants. Note: C and V can also include irregular single letter vowels and consonants (e.g., CVC can result in "son" where o=/ŭ/, CVCVC can result in "magic" where g=/j/), but you can use phonetic controls to exclude these.
CV(s)CVC	solid	V(s) here limits to short vowels. If you just use CVCVC, V can be any single letter vowel.
CV(l)CVC	vital	V(l) here limits to long vowels. If you just use CVCVC, V can be any single letter vowel.
CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC, etc.	slam, west, trust, etc.	Add blends by using CC, etc. The "C" represents short vowels (CC will not return digraphs like "sh")
[CC]VC	chop, chef	The brackets [CC] indicate a digraph. You can also use [CCC] for trigraphs.
CVC=CVC	rabbit, dotted	C=C here represents double consonants. CVCCVC (with no equal) would return words like "basket" as well.
CVCe	cake, mice	Magic e or split digraphs. Note that this will also return words like "mice" and "cage" where the "c" and "g" do not make the standard /k/ and /g/ sound.
CVCe(irr)	dove, some	Magic e or split digraphs with irregular vowel sounds.
CVC_ing, CVC_er, CVC_ed	baking, baker, baked, etc.	VC_ indicates there's a dropped e situation. If you use CVCing instead of CVC_ing, you'll get words like "mixing."
CVCing	mixing	lower case letters (ex: ing) indicate that the tool should look for letter matches. Note that this does not return words like "baking" since the "a" is a long vowel and technically a magic e with drop e.
C[VV]C	heat, meet	The brackets [VV] indicate a two letter vowel team. You can also use [VVV] for three letter vowel teams, which includes words like "night" (vowel team = igh).
C[VR], C[V+R]	far, fair	The brackets [VR] indicate a two letter r-controlled vowel clusters. You can also use [V+R] for three letter r-controled vowel clusters.
~s, st~, m~st	cats, sting, must/manifest	The tilde (~) represents any number of letters.
c-ts, CVC-	cats/cots, ruts/hint	The dash (-) represents only one letter.

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