- The best-selling, award-winning, step-by-step beginning reading system Now I"m Reading! Now introduces Flashcards! Slide, See & Say combines the best of flashcards and phonics into an interactive reading experience for kids! A unique flashcard slider reveals each word gradually so kids can sound it out letter by letter. Simple picture icons under each letter remind beginning readers of the sound each letter makes. Using this phonics method, children will learn to connect each letter to the sound it makes. Then, they can use those sounds to decode words. They can learn to read!When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking, says Nora Gaydos as she introduces this simple but critical rule to kids. This new set of long-vowel flashcards helps kids understand that when there are two vowels in a word, the second one is often silent.