More About This Resource
This sound wall teacher guide with lesson plans includes everything you need to explicitly and systematically introduce and utilize a sound wall with your Kindergarten, 1st grade or 2nd grade students. Over and over, I kept hearing the question, “Christina, I’ve bought my sound wall but now what?” My intention with this resource is to both educate teachers on how to make a sound wall a meaningful learning tool and to provide you with explicit and systematic lesson plans for introducing using a sound wall with your students.
This resource is a sample of my resource: Sound Wall Explicit Lessons and Activities
This resource is a companion to the resource, Sound Wall, but can also be used with any phonics scope and sequence or sound wall! Each lesson plan is a step by step guide for introducing the phoneme & sound card, articulation gestures and graphemes.
The FULL RESOURCE includes:
⭐️ Teacher Resources:
- 47 lesson plans for introducing phonemes and graphemes to students (all 44 phonemes of the English language plus c, qu, & x)
- Consonant Sound Wall & Vowel Valley Overviews
- Phoneme to Grapheme Dictionary
- Routines for daily and weekly review
- Common questions & answers
- Suggested Scope & Sequence
- Examples of beginning of the year sound walls (K-2)
- Additional resources to further expand on teacher knowledge of sound walls
⭐️ Students resources:
- Sound Wall Dictionary
- Cut and paste sound wall activity
- Personal student sound walls
- Grapheme handwriting practice for consonants and short vowels
Seta Timbreza (verified owner) –
Gives teachers a place to start when they don’t have a phonics curriculum.
Mackenzie Spurlock (verified owner) –
LOVE these! It is a wonderful starting point when you are new to the idea of a sound wall. I love the routine for the Kindergarten level of instruction.
Heather Stover (verified owner) –
These lessons are really helpful to anyone new to setting up, introducing and using the interactive sound wall in the classroom.
Diane Matos (verified owner) –
Such a great resource. Thank you for making this free for this teacher who is just getting started with the Science of Reading.
Deborah Linsy (verified owner) –
Having a sound wall posted in your classroom is a great visual and learning resource for your students. My students loves my sound wall during reading time.
Deborah Linsy
Dalia Elgamal (verified owner) –
fabulous resource aligned to sor . The lessons clearly explain exactly what to do . This is a must-have resource for any teacher.
ashley pate (verified owner) –
Looking forward to using this for my SoR!!
jtorres (verified owner) –
This is a great place to start when just learning about the SOR. Thank you for the freebie!
Michelle Blakeley (verified owner) –
I’ll be using a sound wall for the first time this year. This is a great resource, very helpful!
Colleen Floyd (verified owner) –
Loved every resource she has made to help with the sound wall! Thank you!
jesslance27 (verified owner) –
I love this product. Thank you for making such a relevant resource for teachers who are new to using SoR in the classroom.
jenoleary10 (verified owner) –
I will be using a sound wall for the first time this year and this resource is great guidance for how to get started!
Donna NIlsen (verified owner) –
Great for my intervention groups.
Shannon Beck (verified owner) –
Been learning about sound walls in our SOR discussions and this is a great way to get started. Very well explainned!
Sheri Gaetz (verified owner) –
I can’t wait to implement this into my class!
Lisa Graves (verified owner) –
Provides a great start to explicit instruction. It’s a fantastic resource for those new to sound walls, as it isn’t overwhelming.
Kayla Trahan (verified owner) –
I absolutely love this freebie along with all the other amazing resources you have for us! Thank you for all that you do.
Be blessed & be safe.
Christina –
Thank you Kayla, I appreciate your kind words and I’ll take as many blessings as I can! -Christina
Amy Bradford (verified owner) –
Just starting mid year with SoR and in 2nd grade and was wondering if it is appropriate to share the sound wall sound/ articulation cards as they are introduced in groups? Is there a personal student sound wall?
Christina –
Hi Amy, The personal student sound walls are included in the bundle, there are several versions! Using the cards in groups is a great idea to reinforce what you are teaching during explicit whole group instruction lessons! 🙂 -Christina
Sian Brockhouse (verified owner) –
I am looking forward to creating my sound wall and using this visual resource to help my students.
Cheryl LaMontagne (verified owner) –
So thankful to have a framework for teaching the sound wall. I have been hesitant but this puts me at ease. Your work and sharing are appreciated!
mydreamteach2023 (verified owner) –
This is amazing! everything is so clear and easy to understand. This is an outstanding resource, as a brand new teacher who has a lot to learn, I truly appreciate everything you do for us. Thank you!
denmotherof3 (verified owner) –
Great resource for anyone! I would recommend this for anyone beginning their SOR journey!
jponte60 (verified owner) –
This has been a game changer for me! Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction. Highly recommend this to anyone starting with SOR.
Diane Reyelts (verified owner) –
I am fairly new to Sound Walls. This was a great resource to get started right away!
mizo prova borah (verified owner) –
It did spark ideas. Good thought.
Howida Mahmoud (verified owner) –
Very excited to use these with my small reading groups. Thank you.
Howida Mahmoud (verified owner) –
Amazing resource