Are you looking for some fun and engaging Science of Reading activities for your students? This year-long bundle is for you. These cute seasonal Elkonin Boxes will replace the old, boring, and plain sound mats. Directions: Pick a card from the card deck. Say the picture name. Blend and segment the word on the back. Use the Elkonin Boxes to graph the word. You can use the phonics cards as self-checking word puzzles too. Students can blend and segment the word and check the picture on the back. Word Mapping Mats Included: Winter Valentine's Day St Patrick's Day Easter Spring Summer Fall Back to School Halloween Thanksgiving This bundle is included in The Ultimate Science of Reading ENDLESS BUNDLE. Click here to find out more: Phonics Cards Included: Beginning Sounds/CVC Words (141 words) Floss+z (21 words) Beginning and Ending Digraphs (62 words) Nasal Blends (39 words) Alternative Sounds (ed, /z/ spelled s, tch, dge, ce, tion and more – 77 words) Blends (160 words) Diphthongs (51 words) Long Vowels (57 words) Vowel Teams (71 words) R Controlled Vowels (41 words) What is segmenting? Segmenting is the process of breaking a word down into its individual sounds (for example cat, /c/-/a/-/t/). What is blending? Blending is combining sounds together to create a word (example: /d/+/i/+/sh/ = dish) How to use Elkonin Boxes? To use Elkonin boxes, a child listens to a word and moves a token into a box for each sound or phoneme. Students can move a colored circle or write a letter in the corresponding cell of the Elkonin box.
