FREE Pre-Primer Heart Words - Compile Your Own Digital Flash Card Set

Read the forty Pre-Primer high-frequency words — a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down through to yellow and you — automatically on sight

Identify the irregular "heart part" of a word from the icon printed on its card and memorise that portion rather than sounding it out

Distinguish a flash word that basic phonics can decode from a permanent heart word that follows no regular pattern

Recognise which letters in a word are silent, using the silent-letter icon carried on the cards

Work from the "Printable Flash Card Instructions" page before the first session; the icons for silent letters, the heart part and flash words are the whole reading system for the cards and are explained nowhere else in the download

The black-and-white set prints the level in the top left-hand corner of each card, which keeps Pre-Primer cards sortable if the set is later merged with cards from other levels

Cards are laid out ten to a page in the same numbered order in both versions, so a coloured card and its black-and-white twin can be printed back to back

Hand the one-page numbered word list to a helper or parent as a checklist of the forty target words while the cards stay in the classroom

Copy the PowerPoint file before editing it and cut only the words a group currently needs, keeping the original forty-word file intact for the next group

Sight-word reading — students read forty Pre-Primer high-frequency words including said, come, funny, where and yellow straight from the card, without decoding.

Heart-part identification — the icon printed over the irregular portion of a word tells students which letters to memorise, so they learn to separate the decodable part from the part that must be known by heart.

Silent-letter recognition — a dedicated icon on the cards points out silent letters, giving students a visual cue for why a spelling and a pronunciation disagree.

Sound-to-spelling mapping — a line drawn underneath a set of letters marks them as a single sound, so students see multi-letter spellings such as the digraph in three treated as one unit.

Building a targeted card deck — teachers copy the supplied PowerPoint file and cut and paste only the words a group needs, assembling a digital deck matched to current instruction.