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Elkonin boxes help kids build phonological awareness by helping them divide words into their individual phonemes.

Phonological awareness skills are important in order to develop good reading and spelling skills. Having good phonological awareness skills means that a child is able to manipulate sounds and words, or “play” with sounds and words. For example, you might ask your child to break the word “cat” into individual sounds: “c-a-t.”

Important: These skills deal with SOUNDS not letters. For example, /t/ represents the sound and not the letter name “tee.” You will not use any written or visual letters when working with phonological activities. These activities are done with listening and speaking only. Learning the letter names and their corresponding sounds is also very important but should be taught and practiced at a different time of the day.

This resource will have a weekly activity for your to work on with your child/student(s). It will include a handout with information and guidance, as well as a video to help support you and the learner.

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Elonin boxes (or "sound boxes") are an effective instructional strategy to build phonemic and phonological awareness in students. This guide is full of links to deepen teachers' understanding of the strategy as well as links to lesson plans, resources, templates, and articles.

" Translate the current research on reading into classroom practices that teachers can deploy tomorrow. We know that reading is an active process that is impacted by the text, task, and sociocultural context in which the reading occurs."

There are great tutorials here to support teachers on using a variety of activities from UFLI, including:

*Word Work Mats

*Phoneme & Grapheme Activities (blending, elkonin boxes, manipulative letters, counting bead string, say it-move it, sorting game)

*Decoding & Encoding (morpheme trees, syllable types, heart words, word chains, practice)