More About This Resource
This sound wall teacher guide with lesson plans includes everything you need to explicitly and systematically introduce and utilize a sound wall with your Kindergarten, 1st grade or 2nd grade students. Over and over, I kept hearing the question, “Christina, I’ve bought my sound wall but now what?” My intention with this resource is to both educate teachers on how to make a sound wall a meaningful learning tool and to provide you with explicit and systematic lesson plans for introducing using a sound wall with your students.
This resource is a sample of my resource: Sound Wall Explicit Lessons and Activities
This resource is a companion to the resource, Sound Wall, but can also be used with any phonics scope and sequence or sound wall! Each lesson plan is a step by step guide for introducing the phoneme & sound card, articulation gestures and graphemes.
The FULL RESOURCE includes:
⭐️ Teacher Resources:
- 47 lesson plans for introducing phonemes and graphemes to students (all 44 phonemes of the English language plus c, qu, & x)
- Consonant Sound Wall & Vowel Valley Overviews
- Phoneme to Grapheme Dictionary
- Routines for daily and weekly review
- Common questions & answers
- Suggested Scope & Sequence
- Examples of beginning of the year sound walls (K-2)
- Additional resources to further expand on teacher knowledge of sound walls
⭐️ Students resources:
- Sound Wall Dictionary
- Cut and paste sound wall activity
- Personal student sound walls
- Grapheme handwriting practice for consonants and short vowels











Mrs Willhite’s Classroom –
Great lessons and activities are thoughtfully designed, highly effective, and provide excellent support for phonics instruction and understanding.
MsDMitch –
Thanks for creating this resource. It works well with my students.
Reaching for Peaks –
Thank you for creating this amazing resource. The FREE Sound Wall explicit lessons and activities are thoughtfully designed, highly effective, and provide excellent support for systematic phonics instruction and student understanding.
Natalie T. –
Great resource, love the lessons, saves a lot of time working on lessons, they are all done, which really helps.
Shiphrah G. –
Great resource for supplemental instruction to help promote effective instruction
Kelly R. –
I am new to first grade and I’m looking forward to using this with my kiddos
Tris King (verified owner) –
Excellent resource for my new classroom, I can’t wait to get started. After teaching upper grade students for 25 years, I am excited to work with younger kids.
Reach All Readers – with Anna Geiger –
Thank you for your sound wall resources, Christina!
pug mom –
Great resource! Well-organized and easy to use. This will be a valuable addition to my classroom. Thank you!
Lauren M B. –
This is a great addition to the sound wall that she has provided!
Mike P. –
Great SOR resource…thank you for adding this to TPT
Christina –
Hi Mike, Thanks for leaving feedback. I’m wondering how I could improve this free resource to get a 5 star review? Thanks -Christina
LUZ TARQUINO –
Thi resource is helpful for my bilingual students. I worked with them in small groups .
Viv W. –
Very clean and neat presentation of info. Love the font too
Inspired Learning –
The sound wall activities have been great for my first grade reading students.
jennifer N. –
Great resource for teachers and students. My students loved the chants.
Kathleen Houdek –
These lessons help make our sound wall even more engaging!
Nickie M. –
My students loved this resource! It was a great way to implement in my other material.
Sarah Smiley –
It was so nice to have lesson plans ready that went through the sound wall. I also loved the activities.
Kathleen K. –
I used this product last year with my students and it was a wonderful resource.
Tonja Quintana (verified owner) –
I will be using a sound wall with my first graders for the first time this next school year. Thank you for making this available! ❤️