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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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Katrina L. –
My students love this resource. They are asking more questions about the mouths and how the sound wall works. It has also sparked up so much conversations. It is awesome!
Natalie B. –
I love this resource. My students and I refer to our sound wall daily. Thank you for creating such a useful product and sharing it with others!
Over the Rainbow –
After a lot of research, I decided to purchase your product. I love how you display your cards and the mouths that go with it. Together as a class, we come up with the words for each sound when we teach it and I add it to the wall. I really like this resource and it will definitely stay on my wall for years to come. Thank you for including the extra information to help teachers understand each sound as well!
Stephanie H. –
This is my first time using a sound wall. I have been wanting to try one out and so glad that I did. I really like that it has pictures for the students to look at.
The First Grade Teacher –
It is so hard to know what is the ‘right’ sound wall to choose. I felt like this one is perfect simple and straight to the point, the mouth cards to help my students see how to make the sound are used all the time. THANK YOU!
Elizabeth D. –
Great resource!
Kristie B. –
Great resource to have displayed in the classroom as a focal point to certain sounds.
DAWN WATTS –
This resource was really easy to use in the classroom. The students loved it.
emily H. –
Great product, my students really enjoyed it
Julie B. –
great resource
Haley F. –
Awesome resource!
Lucie B. –
My students love this! Very helpful visual resource for my class. I will use again.
WINR What I Need Resources –
This resource is awesome! It’s a bit time-consuming to make into 2 posters for the classroom, but I’ve found a way to make it a bit less cutting.
Print everything but the poster headings as 2-pages-to-1. This will help it fit on a tri-fold cardboard-sized paper area. Then organize each sound and find all the pieces. Tape, on the back, the mouth card, sound, card, picture/spelling card, and word cards in a verticle line or shape that fits your space. Organize the word cards by the spelling pattern on the picture/spelling card. Once you get all those combined, then laminate those. WAY less cutting this way. I do the same thing for the Consonant Sound Wall too, only I group some sounds in clusters (like the p & b, t & d, and k & g, ch & j, m & n & ng, f & v, th & th, s & z, sh & zh, and hw & w, the others I leave on their own. Once all are laminated and cut, I then tape it to a colored sheet of paper using rolls of tape. You can use glue too if you want. I did this because if the paper fades I want to be able to easily change it out. I have hot-glued the poster to the wall.
The teacher “how this sound is formed” cards I printed 2-pages-to-1-page so that I could put them on a ring to flip. I made one set for the vowels and one for the consonants. I did laminate those too.
For the students, I printed the student copies pages and gave them the sounds walls without the word cards and with the words printed under the sound. That way if they can’t see the posters they can reference their handouts. Not the ones they had to fill in, but the completed ones.
The kids I have used this with are 1st & 2nd graders, 3rd is next. The 2nd graders are currently using it and trying to use it on their own to help them make sense of words and improve their spelling skills. I really like teaching them the mouth positions too and having them look in mirrors to see their mouth. 1st grade is just being introduced to it. They are being integrated with an Orton-Gillingham lesson and spelling rules. We are just starting this rollout, so I cannot speak to its effectiveness yet or how it is working with integration, but I feel this should work to improve the reading & spelling skills of our kiddos significantly. As the interventionist, I see a lack of understanding of how the English Code works in students through HS, compounding the problem as students get older….This program should help students learn the code and use the code. This type of learning is also very beneficial to all students, not just those that would learn it no matter what program you use.
I would highly recommend this resource and would purchase it again. I just found out there’s an update with Google slides with 60 pages of activities for kids to do!
Danielle G. –
Great resource
Amy K. –
Love how easy this is to use. My students have benefited so much from these being up this year instead of a word wall. Thank you!
In a Pickle Teacher Produce –
This was very informative, easy to follow directions. Great resource to have in my room and my students refer to often.
Royal Firsties –
Great Resource!
Jennifer J. –
Fabulous! My students use this resource DAILY!
Elizabeth M. –
Great resource.
CoSandra H. –
It is a great resource for Science of Reading.