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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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Melissa G. –
great resource
McTeacher M. –
I am excited to move to a sound wall this year. I was happy to have this to start the process and give me a push to give it a try!
Emily T. –
Love this display and very helpful when teaching the different sounds that the letters and letter combinations make.
Erin R. –
Most of the teachers in our K-2 school have purchased and are using this resource to keep things consistent for our students. Great resource!
Karry R. –
such an extensive resource for all of your sound wall needs. Miss Winter is an SOR guru!
Sticky Hands and Lesson Plans –
This is the best sound wall I’ve seen!
Michele C. –
This is a wonderful resource to aid our school phonics program.
Laura Gallion –
So glad I moved from a word wall to a sound wall. My students were much more engaged and used it more throughout the year.
Katryna DeRubeis –
We are so excited to start using this in our classrooms at our school!
Miss Nealon –
Very happy with this sound wall. My students used it frequently.
Kristan M. –
This is an excellent resource. I love it!
Michael S. –
Excellent resource! I love the sound card pictures. By the end of the year my SK/1 class was beginning to refer to it to help them with their writing. Downside: I’m still trying to wrap my head around some of the vowels in the vowel valley. I also am not a huge fan of teaching my students the phonetic alphabet. Instead I posted the most common grapheme on the larger coloured square.
Maikou M. –
The students and I loved all the diverse faces. I was able to use the pictures along with the sound spelling cards from my Wonders curriculum to create a sound wall. The students and I found it helpful.
Brian P. –
Love the set up and the way students can interact with this!
Ms Rosemary –
Great resource!
Cari S. –
Thank you so very much!
Mary M. –
Great addition to my classroom.
Theresa M. –
I LOVE this resource. As a reading intervention specialist and new SOR convert, I was super excited to find this- there is SO MUCH in here, and so many options to make it work for any room/situation. The mouth pictures were sooooooo helpful when we were all in masks. It was so awesome to see struggling students actually REFER to the sound wall when they were writing!
Kelsey Fulghum –
Of all the sound walls I’ve seen. This has been by far my favorite. Christina has the resources and research to back her resources and I truly appreciate that. She is always willing to help answer questions about her resources.
Anthony S. –
Love this resource. So many people have comment on it up in my room. We love to reflect back on mouth cards and use vowel pictures everyday.