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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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Tamara Patterson –
This is a great addition to my Phonics Word Study! Students can identify and locate the sound spellings. Works so much better than simply placing sight words in alphabetical order.
Lynne S. –
I am so excited to have a sound wall. I looked at a ton of them and this set has everything I wanted and I love the different options you give us for printing. Even though we only have 9 weeks left this school year, I’m introducing it now and I am very excited for next year to use it all year long. Thank you!
Imaginative Teacher –
We used some of the picture cards today and it was wonderful! It was so much better for the kids to see the mouth movements of someone closer to their age than me lol really made sounding out fun and relevant. Truly love this pack!
Casey J. –
Wonderfully thought out and created! I really enjoy all the thought and detail put into this resource! It is topnotch!
Chelsey C. –
This wall is everything we were needing in our classroom to help support my students! I laminated it and put it up on our back wall and the students love being able to refer to it
Carly A. –
Thank you for such an engaging resource.
Collins Creates –
My student love this! Refer to it often
Michelle Sukup –
thank you
Lauren T. –
Helping my 1st grader immensly!
Cynthia S. –
This is a great resource for my multi age classroom!
Ashley T. –
I have been taking a class on the SOR. I have been looking for a kid friendly, eye catching Sound Wall and this is it! Now I just need ideas on how to implement it without it being overwhelming for my students!
livelaughread –
Love this resource. I am study reading in my M.Ed. program and cannot wait to implement this into my classroom.
aracelli morgan –
I have been looking for a sound wall that included articulation photos and this resource has it all. I have printed and laminated it all. I can’t wait to hang it up in my classroom!
Pamela L. –
We decided to make two portable boards and have used them almost everyday. Students are getting used to looking for the sounds but a few miss the full high frequency word bulletin…lol…we will rearrange to have both. Thank you
Gilhoolie Readers –
Thank you.
Susie M. –
Introducing phonemic awareness using the photographs to help with mouth, tongue and lip formations are absolutely fantastic. Well organises and set out so it save me so much time making my own! Thank you!
Angela S. –
I have been looking for something like this for ages. Very clear and easy to use display that can also be used for explicit teaching of concepts.
Ashlee E. –
I wanted to try a sound wall this year but was having trouble finding exactly what I needed. This resource is perfect for my prep students, especially with the photos of the mouth for correct pronunciation. I also love how the sounds are broken up into sections, this helps me also as a beginning teacher
roxana R. –
This is just what I wanted for my home to homeschool my children. The visuals are so helpful and the font is clear for my son.
Designated Dojo –
Since Covid, it’s been so hard to teach letter sounds and how to form the sound in your mouth. This has helped to transform my focus wall. I love the real photographs!! It has helped so much!