Sound boxes

Hi everyone! Can you tell my kids are at their grandparent’s house these past couple days based on the fact that I’m actually blogging? Ha! I have an actual folder called “to finish soon.” It is quite full and some files have been there for years. Well, today I finally finished one that I’m really ... Read More about Sound Boxes

Have you ever used sound boxes (also known as Elkonin Boxes) in your classroom? Basically, it’s a way to strengthen your students’ phonological awareness by segmenting words into individual sounds. This will help with both spelling and reading. When using sound boxes, students will break a whole word into its individual sound parts (phonemes). This ... Read More about Sound Boxes (a.k.a. Elkonin Boxes)

How to use sound boxes in kindergarten and first grade. Learn more about elkonian boxes and grab a free printable

Learn all about Elkonin Boxes (aka sound boxes) and how they build sound awareness, letter-sound connections, and decoding & encoding skills.

Sound boxes, or Elkonin boxes, are an effective tool for showing students individual sounds. In this post, I'll go through how to use them for phonological awareness, phonics, and sight words.

Read our post to learn how to use Elkonin Boxes. These are the perfect tools to use to practice phonemic awareness skills. We explain what they are and how best to use sound boxes activities with your students. Our Elkonin boxes resource includes a lesson plan, 20 day word list, and over 100 pages of Elkonin boxes. They are evidence based and fit perfectly with the Science of Reading. #elkoninboxes #soundboxes #elkoninboxeskindergarten #scienceofreading #phonics

Kaley Sara on Instagram: "Say “blending” to get the 🔗 to the PERFECT resource to help kids blend sounds together. This is called successive blending - you blend the first two sounds and then add on more sounds as you go. This helps kids: 🩷 blend sounds into words ❤️ not lose their place when they’re reading words 🧡 not make up sounds as they go (“c-a-t” - chips 🤨) 💛 they won’t sound like a robot 🤖 The first method I showed is one that I’ve used for years. However, I’ve found that…

Kids use Elkonin boxes to help them break words into their individual sounds.

When I started teaching music in my early childhood classes, one of my first projects was to create a Sound Box… a box full of sounds. It sits innocuously in one corner of my room until it’s ‘play’ time or ‘let’s experiment’ time and then it springs to life: loud sounds, soft sounds, whirry, shaky, [...]