Amanda Earnest, a graphic artist with the Learning Resources Center at Auburn University, helped the Reading Genie create new illustrations of phonemes featuring their graphemes, or principal spellings. These illustrations display a real-world analogy sound to help students remember short-vowel phonemes. The grapheme is embedded in the illustration.
Crying baby: a = /a/
Creaky door: e = /e/
Rocking chair: e = /e/
Hard of hearing: e = /e/
Icky sticky: i = /i/
Yawning angel: o = /o/
Caveman: u = /u/