Description

Have you been looking for a way to incorporate more phonemic awareness tasks into your lesson plan each day?  This FREE packet will help!

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Elkonin sound boxes help new readers build phonological and phonemic awareness. Focusing on sound boxes is a effective and efficient strategy to use in small group instruction, independent work (centers / stations), and intervention when working toward awareness of the sounds in words. This is not a worksheet approach to learning short vowel sounds.  It’s a seeing, saying, and doing method that provides exposure and experience to hearing (and making connections to) the sounds in words.

✅ This Packet Includes:

• 4 versions of 20 word cards
• Color or black/white options
• Blank boxes or those with “helpers”

⭐ Word List Includes:

Short a

cat

bat

map

hat

Short e

net

web

red

bed

Short i

pig

hit

dig

lip

Short o

mop

dog

box

log

Short u

bun

sun

gum

cup

✂️ How to Prep:

Print and laminate the pages you prefer to use with students, and cut them into cards.

▶️ How to Use:

I introduce these cards as a whole group activity on my document camera and have students come up and practice “sound counting” while pointing to each box as they go or moving a manipulative from box to box (left to right) as they say each sound. After that, I use them during small group / intervention lessons, as well as reading station (individual) work tubs.

1.Choose a card and one manipulative (or point with index finger)

2.Point to the picture and say the word (“cat”)

3.Place the manipulative (or point with finger) in the boxes and say the sounds that belong in each box /c/ /a/ /t/

💫 The full bundle of 100 cards is available here!