1. A phonetics system for the English language including a plurality of tiles, each tile including one or more letters that have a sound denoted by a color marking on said tile, said plurality including vowel tiles associating one color with short single vowel sounds, vowel tiles associating a second color with long single vowel sounds, digraph tiles bearing the color of vowels that commonly appear in English words with said digraph, vowel/digraph combination tiles bearing the colors associated with the sound of the vowel in said vowel/digraph combination in English words, and tiles bearing vowel combinations marked with the colors associated with the vowel sounds said vowel combinations commonly have in English words.
1. A phonetics system for the English language including a plurality of tiles, each tile including one or more letters that have a sound denoted by a color marking on said tile, said plurality including vowel tiles associating one color with short single vowel sounds, vowel tiles associating a second color with long single vowel sounds, digraph tiles bearing the color of vowels that commonly appear in English words with said digraph, vowel/digraph combination tiles bearing the colors associated with the sound of the vowel in said vowel/digraph combination in English words, and tiles bearing vowel combinations marked with the colors associated with the vowel sounds said vowel combinations commonly have in English words. 2. The system of claim 1 wherein said vowel combination tiles include two or more color markings to denote that the vowel combination may have the sounds associated with said two or more color markings in different English words.