The Science of Literacy Learning Sound Wall Display & Guidebook (with Clipart)

Complete Sound Wall Display Resource with Keyword Picture Clipart & Phoneme-Grapheme Guidebook

By The Science of Literacy Learning

This resource includes everything you need to build a sound wall that is aligned with the science of reading in your classroom! It includes phoneme-grapheme cards for all 44 consonant and vowel phonemes in the English language. Each card includes a mouth articulation image, phoneme label, clipart keyword picture, & mini-cards for all of the graphemes that can spell that speech sound in the English language. Each grapheme card includes a "frequency bar" that states how frequently that particular spelling is used to represent the sound in writing. (Example: A 25% would indicate that the grapheme/spelling on that card is used to spell that phoneme in 25% of English written words.) Grapheme cards are included for all spellings of each phoneme, but it is suggested that pre-k and kindergarten teachers begin by posting only the most commonly used grapheme under each phoneme card. More complex grapheme spellings can be posted as they are taught.

This resource also includes an entire set of consonant and vowel phoneme-grapheme display cards that do not have key word pictures, and includes all phoneme-grapheme images on one page for a quick print and post version!

"Formation Family" articulation headers and "Manner of Airflow" sidebar titles are also included in this product. These column and row title headers are one of the things that make this sound wall resource so unique and kid-friendly! Kids can be easily taught how to use the title headers as reference guides when using the sound wall as a tool to problems solve! (For more information on this, check out my video training session entitled "All About Sound Walls" on my @TheScienceOfLiteracyLearning Facebook page!)

This resource also comes with a handheld guidebook contains all the information you will need to teach all 44 of the English phonemes to your emerging readers! This little guidebook will provide you with information about the various "Formation Families" and "Manners of Airflow" that are used to create all consonant phonemes. Included are information cards for each consonant phoneme that tell you what Formation Family it belongs to, what manner of airflow is required to produce the sound, and principle spellings for that phoneme in order of frequency. Also included are vowel phoneme information cards that list the type of vowel and their principle spellings in order of frequency.

Basically, the guidebook is a teacher's ultimate "cheat sheet" for all of the important phoneme information you need to know to help your students develop a crisp phonological representation of every single speech sound in the English language! (And if you watched my FREE "Science-of-Reading" training sessions in my @TheScienceOfLiteracyLearning Facebook group! Remember that proficient readers store letters and words in permanent memory by "mapping" them onto clear, crisp phonological representations of known phonemes (or familiar strings of phonemes)! If we don't explicitly draw attention to the fine details of how each phoneme sounds and is specifically articulated, there will be no "mental velcro" to "stick" letters and spellings to in permanent memory. Remember, proficient readers DO NOT memorize words as whole pictures! They orthographically map graphemes (letters) onto known and familiar speech sounds (phonemes).

Learning about the 44 phonemes of the English language and using a sound wall in your classroom will help you guide your students to develop robust phonological representations of all phonemes, more successfully map graphemes to those phonemes, and begin to store familiar strings of phonemes and their corresponding spellings into memory to build a rich "sight word" lexicon. Basically, this little guidebook will put you well on your way to re-wiring students' brains... therefore helping you become the educational "brain surgeon" that you were always intended to be!

Want to know more about the importance of using a SOUND WALL in your classroom? Check out my FREE "All About Sound Walls" training session on @TheScienceofLiteracyLearning Facebook page (in the "Featured Posts" section).

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Keep your eyes open all week for more FREEBIES and SOUND WALL resources!

I will be posting all night... and all week!

Holly

The Science of Literacy Learning

PLEASE NOTE: There are other versions of this sound wall available, including:

- Sound Wall Version with blank keyword picture boxes for YOU to add your own clipart!

-Sound Wall Version with photo keyword pictures

-Sound Wall DIGITAL version (for use on digital whiteboards or projection screens)

-SUPER SOUND WALL GROWING BUNDLE that includes all versions of my sound walls along with all supporting sound wall activity resources I create! This will include resources such as:

- Personal Sound Wall Resource (Complete or Build-as-You-Learn Versions)

- Phoneme-Grapheme Guidebook

- Coordinated Alphabet Line and Student Alphabet Charts

- Sound Wall Search: Phoneme-Grapheme Review Game

- Unlocking the Sound Wall Escape Room Activity (for grades 3 and up)

- Instructional Sound Wall Lesson Plans: How to use the Sound Wall to Letters & Sounds Whole Group (Pre-K/Kindergarten)

- and MORE!

Check out my TPT store page or the @TheScienceOfLiteracyLearning Facebook page for more details!

*This item is included in the SUPER SOUNDWALL BUNDLE! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/SUPER-SOUND-WALL-RESOURCE-GROWING-BUNDLE-8280622