More About This Resource
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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Pam H. –
Very helpful! Many students were having trouble creating the sounds correctly, this has helped a lot!!
Primary Panic –
Amazing! Thank you so much. This is going to add so much value to the reading instruction in my classroom 🙂
Erin K. –
This is a great sound wall! I love that they use actual picture of what mouths should look like when you are saying the sounds!
Mrs Cardosi’s Classroom –
This is my first year using a sound wall, and this resource has been extremely helpful! I appreciate you organizing the materials in a way that is so easy to follow as well! Thank you!!!
Lisa S. –
I liked the visuals better than the ones the school provided for my students.
Jayne H. –
I Love this resource!
Vivian J. –
I loved this resource. It was perfect for my lesson. I can use this over and over again. Great resource!
Hanna Forsberg –
Love this resource! So many options. Colorful! and follows the science of reading!
Amy K. –
Requires a little bit of prep work to make the display last, but totally worth it! Thank you!
Alyssa R. –
Great resource.
Elizabeth N. –
I LOVE this sound wall. My SLP checked out the mouth pictures as well – there are some that she’d change, but those are dialectical. She said it’s the best sound wall she’s seen and was ecstatic to see it in my classroom to help her students… We aren’t in masks anymore but the pictures are so helpful for all students!
Lesa P. –
Aligned with 95%. Very helpful visual. Use during small group & whole group.
Melissa B. –
This has been a great classroom tool. The students use the sound wall daily in their lessons!
Kelly M. –
Great resource to use in the classroom. Thank you!
teachkidz3 (verified owner) –
Just another amazing resource from Christina! I <3 everything she has made to help me along my SoR journey!
Becky K. –
thank you for this resource and helping me build my sound wall.
Ashley S. –
great
CARLY C. –
My students and I loved using this resource!
Kaleb B. –
I have been enjoying my word wall so far this year! It helps with phonics skills and good resource for my student for writing. I have also enjoyed using it with my English Learners specifically a couple of my students who have speech issues as well. I love the photos of showing them how to form the sounds, it helped my students for example with the letter “L” , seeing the difference between the “n” and “m” sound, as well as the digraph “th”. Thanks again.
Lorrie W. –
Great sound wall!