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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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Angie Hart –
I am very excited to get this up and make the switch from a word wall. I am very interested to see how much it will help my students in their writing!
Diane T. –
I am so excited to use this resource in my tutoring business.
Sarah F. –
Thorough, with options for display so teachers can choose what works best for them. Clear pics featuring diverse children.
PreK Sailor –
Can’t wait to try this in my classroom. It looks amazing!
Barbara F. –
I am really looking forward to using this sound wall. I have looked at so many others and this is exactly what I want for a fair price. Thank you for creating this.
Betsy Hensley –
The organization is so comprehensible. I love the student materials. It makes so much sense for the students to use the sound cards.
Angie Fish – School of Fish Teaching –
Just what I was looking for. Appreciate all the different elements. Thank you!
Stefani G. –
Excellent resource!!!
Margaret L. –
This will be a great resource to help my students with letter-sound correspondence. Looking forward to using with my class.
Rachel N. –
Great product!
Cathy M. –
This is exactly the product I have been looking for. I purchased this product before you added the pictures of diverse students so I am even more pleased with my purchase. Thank you!
Camille S. –
So helpful for my resource students. Thank you!!
Lori K. –
So excited to use this in the coming school year. Have been using word walls and thought they are not the easiest to use. It is about time I discovered sound walls and I have this product prepped and ready to go, it is going to be so helpful!!
Lisa Carnes –
I can’t wait to use this in my class this year! Thank you!
sarah S. –
This is the only resource in tpt to include all of the components I was looking for! The pictures are great quality and I love the two vowel options. This is a high quality resource and I highly recommend it. Can’t wait to add our weekly spelling words to our new wall!
Creatively Inspired –
Very useful
Nancy L. –
Love that this is by sound and has the visuals of mouth when sound is produced. I could tell that my child was focusing on the position of their mouth to compare with the visuals when they weren’t sure which sound it was…mostly with /i/ and /e/.
Annie B. –
Excited to add this to my classroom!
Angela Baker –
Using these to help with phonics in reading and writing. I love the real faces to show kids
DEBORAH k M. –
Put this together for my grade level change to first in the fall. A lot of work to put together but SO helpful. Many hours of PD on science of reading, looking forward to using in my classroom!