Sound walls in classroom 2nd grade

It's time to ditch word walls for sound walls. Sound walls are based on the science of reading, and are an excellent way to explicitly teach the phonemes.

Make learning phonics fun and engaging in your classroom with this personal sound wall! Designed specifically for kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade students, this personal sound wall allows your students to better master phonics skills. Add this FREE resource to your writing, phonics activities, and individual reading time. Learn more and get your free sound wall here!

Are you new to the science of reading and wondering how to use a sound wall effectively? Learn how to set up and use your sound wall.

Have you ever wondered about the difference between a Word Wall and a Sound Wall in the elementary classroom. This blog post dives into the details on both. Find out what each is and how you can use both of these tools to help your students. Both a word wall and sound wall can help your students improve their phonics skills and reading abilities. A word wall can also help improve vocabulary, spelling and writing. Head over and read this blog post for all of the details.

I've been busy making the shift to the science of reading this summer, from prepping task cards with Elkonin boxes to adapting sight word resources to align with the heart words strategy. I knew there was one more resource I needed to prepare before the new school year started: a sound wall! The science of reading suggests that sound walls are more useful to students than word walls, as students reference the phonemes and corresponding graphemes. There are various sound walls out there, but…

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A sound wall is just what it sounds like- a place on a wall where you can organize sounds-spellings that different letter combinations can make. It’s similar to a word wall, but better! Sound cards display phonics patterns that help students learn to read in an organized, or systemic, manner. For example, a student would need […]

A sound wall is an Science of Reading tool that is used to teach phonics skills to young readers. It is comprised of a vowel valley and consonants wall.

This classroom sound wall with mouth/lip articulation pictures is aligned with the science of reading research, and will help students map letters to sounds AND support handwriting. It's more than just cute classroom decor! Like a word wall, a sound wall helps kindergarten and 1st grade students with spelling and reading words; however it is not organized by beginning sounds in alphabetical order. A sound wall organizes and teaches students the sounds we hear in speech. This classroom…