Funky Phonics: Learn to Read, vol. 1 is an invaluable learning audio CD which uses the synthetic phonics approach to teach short vowels, high-frequency consonants and blends. This CD includes the following short vowels and consonants: (s, m, h, p, b, t, d, f, l, and hard c). Recommended: K - Gr. 1Sara Jordan has been creating educational songs to help kids learn since 1990. Motivated by the needs of her own children and her students, her series now includes over five dozen albums including songs that teach sight words, reading readiness, phonics, grammar, math, history, French, Spanish and Mandarin.