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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Andria S. –
I teach resource/inclusion and this resource was a wonderful tool to help aid my students.
DaniEllementary –
Such an incredibly perfect tool for my resource room!! Thank you so much for this!
Travis H. –
The small ones are still a little big but overall good.
Samantha W. –
This is a great way for students to learn how to apply english language rules to all words! I love this!
Heather H. –
This is an amazing resource. It is engaging and interactive. My kids are loving it!!!!
Heather T. –
I am looking forward to using a sound wall in my classroom this year and will be purchasing the lessons to go with this resource.
Kristen B. –
I love this resource and it is very beneficial for my EL students! I love the real pictures of the mouth pronunciation. We teach a different curriculum and I wish the Key Card Words were editable. We have different words we use that are not listed on this resource and I would like to add these to our sound wall and use the same formatting.
Laurie M. –
This is absolutely perfect and everything I needed for my sound wall!
Mrs. Seddon’s Messy Minds –
Love this resource! I had been looking at sound walls and found this one. It is great! The pictures are of kids for visual of how to make letter sound. There is so much that comes with the file. I am slowing adding stuff to my wall so I do not overwhelm my students. Her idea of using “locks” is fantastic.
Grecia O. –
Such a great sound wall! The pictures are great and love the way in looks in my classroom. Thank you!
MELISSA G. –
Trying a sound wall for the first time.
amy M. –
This is an awesome resource to help with our science of reading start up. I am very excited with it.
keyana L. –
My students loved this resource.
SNJ Creations –
My sound wall looks great and I am happy for all of the options of sizes of cards.
Sara J. –
This has been really helpful for covid times when the kids can’t see proper mouth formation because of masks.
Christi C. –
thanks
Daisy B. –
I love this resource!
Devin U. –
This is my first year using a sound wall and I am loving it. It was a lot of work to set up and get everything ready (you do not have to print everything before you begin) but I feel like it will beneficial for my kiddos this school year.
Compass Primary Learning –
Great resource!!
Sarah Collom –
great resource