About Phinder™

Phinder™ is a website designed to help reading teachers who are working on beginning phonics skills.

It can be hard to find words that contain the patterns teachers want children to learn. This website has long lists of words that match many different patterns. Teachers can use it to locate words to teach. And it is 100% free! I hope you find it useful.

Go to Phinder™

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Step 1

In the search box, type a grapheme (a spelling) you would like to teach in the “Search Letter Pattern” box. Then click the one you would like to teach. When you click, a list of phonemes appears in the Step 2 box.

Step 2

From the list of phonemes (sounds), select the one you want. We chose i-e, and now we want the “long I” words, e.g., bike or white. Click on the phoneme box to select it.

Step 3

Now that you have put the grapheme and phoneme together, check to make sure this looks right. Then, click “Search For Words.”

Step 4

Abracadabra! Here is a list of words that contains i-e that says the long-I sound

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