Long Vowel Sound Boxes | Editable

Description

Are you looking for a highly effective strategy to practice long vowel spelling patterns AND improve your student’s phonics and spelling skills?

Sound boxes promote orthographic mapping, which supports students as they connect the sounds in words (phonemes) to the letters that represent those sounds (graphemes) in order to permanently store words in long-term memory for automatic retrieval.

Likewise, sound boxes are incredibly valuable for students because they support students as they develop phoneme-grapheme knowledge.

Sound boxes facilitate the understanding that words are made up of individual sounds and that those sounds are represented by a series of graphemes. Likewise, sound boxes support students as they begin to associate each sound in a word with the letter(s) that represent that sound.

Research has shown that phonemic awareness is most effective when it connects letter sounds (phonemes) with the letters (graphemes) that represent those sounds. Together, phonemic awareness and phonics instruction provide a sound foundation for using the alphabetic principal to learn to read and spell.

This Resource Includes:

• All 5 Vowels – a, e, i, o, u
  • Long A: ai, ay, a_e, a
  • Long E: ee, ea, ie, ey, y, e
  • Long I: i_e, igh, ie, y, i
  • Long O: o_e, oa, ow, o
  • Long U: u_e, oo, ew, ue, ui, u

• Over 90 “Done for You” Long Vowel Sound Box Worksheets
• 13 Editable Sound Box Worksheets
• Answer Keys

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