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This Sound Wall with Mouth Pictures & Sound Wall Locks is a comprehensive, Science of Reading-aligned tool designed to help students master phoneme awareness and phonics. Unlike traditional word walls, this sound wall organizes words by sounds (phonemes) rather than alphabetical order, providing students with a more effective reference when reading and spelling. With mouth articulation pictures representing diverse children and sound wall locks to secure student engagement, this resource offers an interactive, research-based approach to phonics instruction.
The sound wall includes all the materials needed to systematically teach phonemes, making it perfect for educators who want to align their instruction with Science of Reading best practices, such as those suggested by LETRS. Whether used in print or digitally via Google Slides, this resource offers versatility in the classroom.
What’s Included:
- Large Sound Spelling Cards (10.5 x 5.3)
- Small Sound Spelling Cards (8 x 5.1)
- Phoneme Cards with mouth articulation photos (featuring diverse children)
- 47 Word Lists and Sound Formation Info Cards
- Sound Wall Locks and instructional video
- Sound Spelling Picture Cards (2 versions)
- Phoneme Group Labels and Bulletin Board Headers
- Virtual Interactive Sound Wall (Google Slides)
- Phoneme-Grapheme Dictionary
- Sound Card Alphabet Line
You can easily print the materials at a smaller scale to create a portable sound wall, perfect for small group instruction or individual student use.
Student Materials Include:
- Personal Sound Wall Vowel Valley Printables (4 versions)
- Consonant Printable Chart (8 versions)
- A-Z Sound Spelling Chart (3 versions in color and black/white) for student folders
- Alphabet Chart (color and black/white)
- My ABC Dictionary
- Build Your Own Sound Wall Activity
This Science of Reading-aligned sound wall is an essential tool for teaching phoneme-grapheme correspondence, improving reading and writing fluency, and fostering independent literacy skills. Perfect for both whole-class and small-group instruction!
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Sunshine Sales –
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Jennifer H. –
Fantastic!
angela L. –
This is such a fabulous idea! I’m looking forward to starting the year with it. Working well this late in the year.
Learning with Lyell –
This is such a great resource. You get some much out of it!
Kelly K. –
Wow. This is a game changer. I have just started to use this in my resource room.
Amy W. –
I love this resource! My sound wall is so helpful for my struggling students!
PerryBeReading –
This resource is exactly what I was looking for! I know the seller has taken pictures of multi-cultural kids to use for the articulation photos, so I can’t wait for the update!
Christina –
Hi! I just updated the resource, please download again to get the new photos! Thank you! –Christina
Elizabeth B. –
I can not wait to have my kids back in the classroom so they can really utilize my new sound wall!
Amy C. –
This is what I’ve been looking for! I can’t wait to get this on my board!
Tinkering Texan Teacher –
This is exactly what I was looking for! I love the different layouts you can use. Thanks!
Nancy S. –
I am so excited to replace my word wall with this sound wall. I am so glad that I came across this resrouce! I love everything about it!
Stacy C. –
THis resource is comprehesive and made creeating my first word wall easier. I love that the author is working to diversify the images.
Ketchen’s Kindergarten –
This is a great resource for implementing a sound wall. I love that you are adding more diverse photos and that I have the option to print these resources multiple times for my sound wall, for small group, etc. Thanks for a great product.
wendy peoples –
Great resource.
Blooming with Mrs Flores –
Great resource!
Dynamic Duos –
I saw this in a co-workers room and had to have it. I love all the visual support it provides for students AMAZING resource.
Resource Junkie –
This resource is amazing. The visuals really help.
Kathryn S. –
This was a great addition to my classroom and aligns with the SoR! Thank you!
Catherine S. –
I just finished reading Kilpatrick’s newest book after a new principal introduced me to the Science of Reading. My grade 2/3s have always been exposed to balanced literacy but I have decided to move into a more structured literacy approach. This sound wall was my first foray into that world. Just having built it with my students, they are already becoming more aware of the specific phonemes and the way they are said. I appreciate that you mentioned you are adding more diverse faces. I plan to use my own students’ beautifully different faces!
Christian L. –
I am so pleased with this sound wall! I have slowly started convincing coworkers and my admin to purchase this so more are using this resource in place of word walls!