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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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OWL Keep on Learning –
This sound wall is awesome. I love the realistic mouth pictures. I use it everyday during my phonics instruction.
Finch’s Phonics –
I created a fabulous bulletin board in our reading resource room. I find the “diverse skin tones” tag to be overstated; I was hoping for more than 2 options and darker skin tones since I teach predominantly Black students.
Teach Me to Read AZ –
I am obsessed with this sound wall! Not only is it a great resource in my classroom but it’s also SUPER cute!
Sarah P. –
I am so excited to have this addition to my classroom. This is a major support in decoding and encoding. Students feel so empowered to use this resource to write and read on their own.
Jaclyn M. –
Thank you for providing a great resource! It was very helpful in my classroom!
Jan Z. –
I took the time to print, laminate and display this resource. EXACTLY what I needed.
robin M. –
This resource is a great visual to help support their learning of sounds
Ann W. –
This Sound Wall resource is awesome! Such a great way to show students how to make the sounds as well as reference the different letter combinations that make that sound! Love using this with my students…even at grade three, many students are finding it helpful when trying to read or spell unfamiliar words. Love this!
Great Days With Mrs Day –
I am obsessed with this sound wall! It is an incredible reference wall that my students use on a daily basis. I love the pictures of the mouths are real photos and not clip art. Our school speech teacher was floored when she saw it up in my room!
Melissa M. –
This was a great resource to use in my classroom. I love this. I have used it to introduce new sounds. Why students are asking really great questions and are using the board to help them spell words. It has been great. Thank you!
Stephanie C. –
I love the variety in pictures & the format/layout. My students are using this as a reference to help them & I love it!
irene A. –
This was a great reference and teaching tool!
Jill M. –
This is THE BEST sound wall resource out there. I love the authentic mouths of real children of diverse backgrounds. It is a time consuming project to prep and to put up so that it looks nice and purposeful but I use it every day!!! Thank you for such an amazing resource!!
Taddeo’s Teaching Tent –
This is probably the biggest purchase I have ever made on TPT. I printed, laminated, cut, and stapled these cards on my classroom. It is such a great resource. Thank you so much!!
Bristol E. –
Game changing reference and tools for teaching and student learning. Thank you!
Laura Jean –
This was such a great resource to have in my classroom. I’ll be putting it up every year from now on. 🙂
PeggyJane Olson –
This was an extremely helpful and useful tool for my classroom. Thank you for your hard work!
Hillary V. –
Wow! What a great resource! I have just recently made the switch to the science of reading and was very lost on where to start, these resources were extremely helpful!!
Whitney H. –
This is so helpful! I use this daily and my students really benefit from both the wall visual and the individual posters they can keep in they folders.
Tonya Hackett –
This sound wall has changed everything! I love how my students have a much better understanding of how to read and write sound spellings because of this powerful teaching and learning tool.