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PCUE STYLE	Function	Examples
Bold	Says its name	ate, bee, deep, pea, car, tea, obedient
Normal	common sound	bat, can, it, run, sam, tip, top, credited
Gray	No sound	any, bone, light, itch, baby, expediency
Shrunken	‘uh’ (schwa) sound	about, bagel, diet, April, color, oxygen
PCUE Style	Function	Examples
Rotated ‘r’	‘er’ sound	razor, liar, dirt, fire, burn, murderer, ogre
Raised	Higher sounding	boots, dancing, dry, of, mini, says, Xerox
Lowered	Lower sounding	books, cage, eight, onion, gym, hymnal
Stretched	Longer/drawn out	ball, doll, cough, quack, yarn, suave, yearly
PCUE Style	Function	Examples
Dotted Underline	Blended Letters	Harry, pyramid, length, learning, airplane
Solid Underline	Combined Letters	about, beach, phone, motion, stew, mirror

Letter Names: stop on words that showcase letter names.

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listen: Letter Name listen: Letter Name   n a m e           listen: Letter Name   b a b y           Listen: Letter Name   L a c y           Listen: Letter Name   d a d d y             Listen: Letter Name   e a t         Listen: Letter Name   l e f t           Listen: Letter Name   g e n i e

Silent Letters: stop on words that reveal the ways letters can be silent.

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listen: Silent Listen: Silent   a r m         Listen: Silent   c o m b           Listen: Silent   d u c k           Listen: Silent   b r i d g e               Listen: Silent   a x e         Listen: Silent   w a f f l e               Listen: Silent   l i g h t

Common Sounds: stop on words that instruct about letters’ most common sounds.

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listen: Common Listen: Common   a n g e l             Listen: Common   b a k e           Listen: Common   c a k e           Listen: Common   d i a l           Listen: Common   e a t         Listen: Common   f u n n y             Listen: Common   g r o w

Schwas: stop on words that clarify how vowels can make the “uh” sound.

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listen: Schwa Listen: Schwa   a w a y           Listen: Schwa   i t e m           Listen: Schwa   p o s s i b l y                   Listen: Schwa   l o v e           Listen: Schwa   v i n y l

Exceptions: stop on words that show how letters in our language can have exception sounds.

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listen: Multiple PQ Types Listen: Dropped Exception   e i g h t             Listen: Dropped Exception   c o o k           Listen: Dropped Exception   G e o r g e               Listen: Dropped Exception   o n i o n             Listen: Raised Exception   b l u e           Listen: Dropped Exception   s y n o n y m

Blends: stop on words containing two or more letters that blend their sounds into a unique sound.

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listen: Blended Listen: Blended   c h e r r y               Listen: Blended   b e a r           Listen: Blended   m o r e           Listen: Blended   w e i r d             Listen: Blended   e a t i n g

COMBINES: stop on words containing two or more letters that group together to represent phonemes not otherwise heard in them.

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listen: Combined Listen: Combined   t h e m           Listen: Combined   p e a c h             Listen: Combined   p h o n e             Listen: Combined   c o u g h             Listen: Combined   m o t i o n               Listen: Combined   t o y         Listen: Combined   a n c i e n t

And many others including the various ambiguous ways the letter r can be used to spell sounds like motor and sports, mirror and girl, cherry and picker, pour and our.