A professionally endorsed methodology for early readers and children facing reading barriers
✔️ Designed to speed up letter recognition
✔️ Build sound awareness, blending and phonic skills
✔️ Address common letter reversals (e.g., b/d, p/q)
✔️ Abacard complements any learning method your child currently uses.
Say goodbye to letter confusion and sound struggles!
What Makes abacard® Junior Unique
abacard® uses clever picture clues hidden inside each letter to boost letter and sound recognition, correct letter reversals, and build strong word-blending skills. Colour-coded letters show vowels in red and consonants in blue.
Ideal for early readers aged 3+ and children with reading challenges, abacard® makes the path to reading easier, faster, and a whole lot more fun.
Kids learn through play with familiar games like SNAP, MEMORY, and the 5 Vowel Fun Game—mastering words like cat, dog, and cup in no time.
abacard® fits seamlessly with any learning program—making it the perfect partner for fast, frustration-free reading success.
How abacard® Compares
Literacy Program X
The letter and picture are separated.
This display disconnects the visual prompt from the letter itself, making it harder for children to form a strong association between the letter and its sound. With the picture and letter apart, there’s a greater chance children will focus solely on the colourful image, rather than understanding how it relates to the letter.
Literacy Program Y
The picture covers the letter.
This display makes it difficult for children to clearly see and recognise the letter shape, impairing their ability to connect it with its corresponding sound. When the letter is hidden within the image, it can confuse rather than clarify — reducing the effectiveness of the visual prompt and making learning more challenging.
abacard®
The picture is embedded into the letter.
abacard® seamlessly blends the image within the shape of the letter, creating a clear and memorable visual cue. By supporting both visual and auditory memory, abacard® strengthens the child’s recognition of both letter shape and sound—turning reading practice into an engaging and effective learning experience that sticks.
Solving Letter Reversals with abacard®
Letter reversals are when a learner confuses the orientation of letters, for example, misreading a “b” instead of “d”. It’s a common problem in early literacy development. The clues contained within the abacard® letters remind the learner of the correct orientation of the letter.
Notice how easily letters like b, p, d, and q can be confused — but with abacard®, vivid visual cues like eyes, tails, and legs guide your child in the right direction, ensuring correct orientation every time.
Word Building and Word Blending
Witness the magic as your child starts building words with ease.
With just a handful of letters, they can create words like “ten,” “pen,” “hen,” “men,” and “den.” Easily identify vowels and consonants, vowels have red borders and consonants have blue borders. abacard® unlocks the power of reading through hands-on exploration.
Next-Level Phonics: For Children Ready to Read Without Visual Cues
abacard® Level 2 Single Sounds cards – master Phonics with Ease
As the learner’s phonic knowledge expands, they can unlock confident reading with 55 durable single sound cards designed to build strong foundational skills.
Each card features bold, colour-coded letters — vowels in red and consonants in blue — with a baseline to prevent reversals. The set comes in a sturdy, easy-flip container for practical use and independent learning.
Enjoy interactive educational games like Snap, Memory, and the Five Vowel Fun Game. On the reverse side, each card includes numbers 0–20 and maths symbols (+, –, ×, =) to encourage cross-curricular learning.
Perfect for developing independence, fluency, and a solid grasp of phonics — all through fun, hands-on play.
abacard® Level 2 Single & Double Sounds Combo Pack
Support your child’s growing phonics skills with this comprehensive set, perfect for learners ready to move beyond picture cues. The set includes 55 single sound cards and 57 double sound cards. The cards are durable, colour-coded for clarity (vowels in red, consonants in blue, and double sounds in black), and designed with baselines to prevent reversals. Packaged in a sturdy container for easy access, this set encourages independent learning through fun games like Snap, Memory, and the Five Vowel Fun Game. Bonus features include number and math symbols on the back of single sound cards, and word-building activities on double sound cards. A great hands-on tool to build confidence, fluency, and phonetic mastery.
abacard games
Both abacard Junior and abacard level 2 (No Pictures) can be used to play these games, even through the demonstration video feature abacard Junior
Boom
Boom is an exciting, fast-paced game inspired by the classic Snap.
Watch the video to see how to play Boom
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Through playful repetition of letter shapes and sounds, children naturally begin to recognise and remember their phonics — all while having fun.
By seeing the shape of letters and sounding them out again and again, children naturally begin to recognise and remember their phonics — all while having fun. With each game, they can reinforce these vital skills hundreds of times without pressure, frustration, or even realising they’re learning. It’s perfect for use at home or in classrooms, offering support for children of all abilities.
Cards are shuffled and dealt evenly. Each player takes turns placing a card down while saying its sound aloud. If a player lays down a card that matches the one already in the pile and calls out the correct sound — BOOM! They win that round!
The larger the card set you purchase, the longer the game lasts and the more sounds your child will encounter and repeat. Every game brings more fun, more phonics, and more learning.
Let your child laugh, play, and learn through joyful repetition — with Boom, phonics practice becomes the game they won’t want to stop playing.
Watch the video to see how to play BOOM — and why it’s so effective for letter shape recognition and phonetic letter sounds.
Pit & Pat – shows children that we needs vowels to make words. A vowel practice activity.
Watch the video to see how to play Pit and Pat
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By placing two consonants on either side and swapping out the vowel in the middle, children build a whole set of new words — sounding them out one by one. Pit and Pat helps children see how letters work together to make real, readable words.
Through repeated play, kids naturally start to recognise phonics patterns, develop blending skills, and gain confidence — all without pressure or frustration. This game is especially supportive for early readers and children with learning differences, making it ideal for home, classroom, or intervention settings.
Watch the video to see how to play Pit and Pat — and why it’s so effective for building reading skills.