Elkonin boxes kindergarten

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

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

Teach with sound boxes, or Elkonin boxes, confidently as you learn how to use them and why students need them. Help your kindergarten and first grade students build their phonemic awareness skills with the FREE template in this blog post.

Using Elkonin boxes (also called sound boxes) in the classroom helps build the foundation of phonemic awareness for students. They are a set of boxes where each box represents a phoneme to model segmenting words into individual phonemes. While they seem so simple, they are a powerful tool!

Click here for your mats! Here are some mats to run off and laminate. I use these for word work in guided reading and the children practice writing the first, middle, and last sound. Then we blend all our sounds together to unlock a word. The arrow is a visual to help them understand the sequence of the sounds and the idea of "sliding" them together! This can also be used for independent work and you might have a baggie of pictures and a recording sheet for each student. Are you getting…

A full set of Sound Elkonin Boxes perfect for developing phonological awareness in CVC, syllables, phonemic awareness, onset, medial and final sounds. This PDF contains 2, 3, 4 and 5 sound boxes per full A4 page. Print on different coloured paper to differentiate and make them easily accessible to your students.

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

Printable Elkonin Boxes with three boxes across and four per sheet with cut lines.

Printable Elkonin Boxes with five boxes across and four per sheet with cut lines.