wheel for the five long vowels the letters in the first three columns 68 96 and 98 are no different from the first three columns in regular four part word wheels for the five long vowels the fourth column 100 contains letters to be placed on the first ending consonants wheel except that there are no consonant blends the last column 102 contains letters to be placed on the second ending consonant wheel the flat word wheels as illustrated in fig6 8 17 and 18 can be manufactured from a heavy duty paper coated paper or plastic each of the wheels must be decreasing in size to enable clear viewing of the periphery of the prior wheel it should be noted that the combinations of consonants and vowels illustrated is not all inclusive and additional combinations will be evident to those skilled in the art the uniqueness to the disclosed word wheels is the use of combined vowel and consonant sound units the use of sound units enables the user to divide out and read the word as it is pronounced 0093 fig9 is the drawing of a 3 d circular three wheel word wheel 34 the first wheel 36 contains the blendable consonants 36 the middle is the vowel wheel 38 and the consonant wheel 40 has the ending consonants 0094 fig1 illustrates the word wheel 100 that incorporates a word shield 102 the word shield 102 is a portion of an inner fourth wheel 108 that has a shielding portion 106 that block a portion of the letters on either side of the viewing strip 104 this enables the user to isolate the letters forming the words thereby removing some of the confusion with reading across or lining up the wheels the same.