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Turn your Heggerty phonics lessons into flashcards with AI

Upload the PDFs, slides, notes or photos you already use for phonics and get flashcards that match your sound and word lists, with spaced repetition built in.

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Why custom cards beat generic sets

Ready-made sets of Heggerty phonics flashcards are easy to find, but the cards that help most are the ones that follow the sounds and words your learners are working on this week.

Match cards to the exact sound sequence in your lesson
Front each card with a grapheme or a question, back it with the sound and a model word
Use the practice mode in the browser at no cost on the free plan
Export to PDF or Anki on Plus when you need printed or synced cards

Example phonics flashcards for early readers

What sound does the digraph sh make?The /sh/ sound, one sound spelled with two letters, as in ship.

What is blending in phonics?Sliding separate sounds together to read a word, such as /k/ /a/ /t/ read as cat.

What is segmenting?Breaking a spoken word into its separate sounds, such as splitting ship into /sh/ /i/ /p/.

What does the silent e do in hope compared with hop?It makes the vowel say its long name, so hope has a long o and hop has a short o.

What is phonemic awareness?The ability to hear and manipulate spoken sounds, without printed letters, such as removing the /s/ from stop to get top.

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Built from your lesson files

Upload a PDF, PPTX, DOCX, plain-text notes or a photo of a page. Text in images is read with text recognition, so printed lesson sheets work too.

Spaced repetition

Cards come back at the intervals where a learner is most likely to forget them, so letter-sound pairs and word patterns stay in memory longer.

Export when you need it

Plus exports to PDF, DOCX, Anki and CSV, so you can print cards for small groups or load them into another app.

How it works

Upload your material

Add the phonics lesson PDF, slide deck, notes or a photo of the sound and word list you are teaching.

Review the cards

DeckOwl drafts flashcards from your content. Edit any card that does not match the wording or sounds you use in class.

Study on a schedule

Practice in the browser with spaced repetition, or export to print or Anki once you are on Plus.

Upload your own lesson files and DeckOwl turns them into flashcards with the grapheme, the sound, and a sample word on the back. Spaced repetition then brings back the letter-sound pairs a learner is starting to forget, and the free plan includes three generations per month to try it out.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between phonemic awareness and phonics?

Phonemic awareness works only with spoken sounds, such as blending or segmenting /k/ /a/ /t/. Phonics links those sounds to printed letters, so a learner sees the letter c and reads the /k/ sound.

How many phonics flashcards should a beginning reader study at once?

Many teachers start with a small set of five to ten letter-sound pairs and add new ones only when those are recalled reliably. Keeping the deck short makes daily practice easier to sustain.

Can I export my flashcards to print them for a small group?

PDF export is part of the Plus plan, which costs $39 per year or $7.99 per month. The free plan lets you study flashcards in the browser but does not include exports.

Do I need a credit card to try DeckOwl?

No. You can start on the free plan without a credit card, and it includes three generations per month. Students with a school email get 40% off paid plans.

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