Looking for a fun engaging way for students to practice applying the letter sounds they know? With this resource, students blend and write short vowel words. These sound codes will help students translate a sound to a letter as they work to decode words that are CVC words, short vowel words with blends or short vowel words with digraphs. Students decode each picture by writing the beginning sound of each picture. When they do that they will end up with a short vowel word that may be a CVC word, have a blend or a digraph.   Why you will love this product? → Engaging activity for independent work, guided reading groups or literacy centers → Has students applying the letter sounds and digraphs they know → Easy to use- just print and use → Easy to differentiate   In this product you will find: →603 Secret code cards- 201 Secret codes focus just on CVC words. These are organized by short vowels. 278 Secret code cards focus on words with beginning blends, ending blends, or both. These are organized by short vowels. 124 Secret code cards focus focus solely on each digraph and are organized by short vowels to make it easy to get the ones your students need. → 68 Secret Code Google Slides™- Ready to use with directions in how to add to Google Classroom™ → 68 Secret Code JPEGs- Ready to upload to Seesaw™ with a video giving directions how to do so → Sound Code Keys - 3 visuals to help students know what letter or digraph goes with which picture →Answer Keys -each sound code is numbered or named and so are the answer keys so easy to check if they decode and wrote the correct word →Visuals on Hands-On Ways to Use Sound Codes →15 versions of recording sheets- to help students focus on what they need to