Sound Walls 101
Connecting Phonemes to Graphemes
Sound Walls 101
Sounds Walls support students in understanding the connection between sounds (phonemes) and letters (graphemes). The first step to Sound Wall success is for the teacher to be able to explain the 44 phonemes (smallest unit of sound) of English. This information is designed to be an introduction for teachers to English phonemes and how those phonemes can be organized and presented to students in the form of a Sound Wall.
Step by Step
In this section, the above presentation is segmented so that you can reference portions as needed.
Sound Walls 101 Intro
sound walls stops
sound walls nasals
sound walls fricatives
sound walls affricates
sound walls glides
sound walls liquids
sound walls vowel valley
sound walls examples
sound walls use in classroom
Resources
Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers 3rd Edition, Dr. Louisa Cook Moats
Padlet: Kastner Collection: Sound Wall Resources (free mouth pictures available here)
Padlet: Kastner Collection: Sound Walls: From the Implementers (percentage of grapheme use resource available here)
Podcast: Mary Dahlgren - Retire Your Word Wall
App: OG Card Deck - free for Apple and Android devices
Literacy How Phoneme Articulation
Other resources created by Michelle
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Episode 2: Subtypes of Readers
Episode 3: How do I find the reading level of my students?
Episode 4: The Reading Rope - Word Recognition
Episode 5: The Reading Rope - Phonological Awareness
Episode 6: The Reading Rope - Decoding
Episode 7: The Reading Rope - Background Knowledge
