Alphabet Arc Word Building Mats with Elkonin Sound Symbol Boxes for Phonics

Alphabet letter identification, letter names, and sound recognition with capital and lower-case letters are made easy with these ABC Arcs and Elkonin Sound Symbol Boxes. They are ideal for small group work with phonics, reading foundational skills, sequencing, decoding, and encoding. Following the research in the Science of Reading rooted in the Orton-Gillingham Approach, these Alphabet Arcs can be multisensory, which is key to activating different areas of the brain and engaging learners. This can easily be achieved through touching, saying, hearing, and seeing the phonemes and graphemes. Using plastic, foam, or magnetic letters or even letters printed on paper that can be manipulated is quite helpful. When working with the Elkonin Boxes, rocks, beads, seeds, erasers, small toys, and even food can be used to manipulate when building words when the emphasis is on sounds.

What’s Included:

There are many, many different versions within this 175 page product.

It includes:

• Directions for use
• 3 Pages of Lesson Plan Ideas (for whole group, small group, 1v1, and independent work emphasizing letter names, sounds, sequencing, and word building)
• Black and White and Color
• Capital Letters and Lower-Case Letters
• Solid Fonts and Outline Fonts
• With and Without Elkonin Sound Boxes
• Elkonin Sound Boxes With and Without lines below to write
• Elkonin Sound Boxes for 3, 4, or 5 phonemes
• 3 different fonts to support recognition and mastery for all students

Why Use an Alphabet Arc:

• Letter recognition
• Letter identification for capital and lower-case letters
• Letter sounds (phonemes) identification
• Phonics
• Letter orientation
• Letter sequencing (ordering, before, after, between)
• Matching lower-case and upper-case letters
• Letter naming fluency
• Distinction of vowels and consonants
• Alphabetic principle
• Phoneme Isolation
• Segmentation
• Word Building
• Decoding
• Blending
• Encoding (spelling)
• And so much more!

How to Use this Resource:

• Say It: Students are verbally given a word. Students repeat the word back.
• Tap It: Students use their fingers to tap out each sound heard in the word.
• Map It: Students move one object covering up one picture for each sound (phoneme) in the word.
• Graph It: Students say each sound (phoneme) while writing each letter or letter combination (grapheme) in the word. This is especially important to note for digraphs and words that follow spelling rules such as the floss rule (as in fill). More details provided in the product of how to handle this.
• Write It: Students write the entire word on the line.

Multi-Sensory:

• Make it multi-sensory with the use of verbal and auditory components
• Use movements for sounds as needed such as pointing up with the index finger for the short u sound
• Use a variety of objects for the Map It step such as:
• Food: marshmallows, cereal, candy, crackers...
• Manipulatives: 2-color counters, cubes, square tiles...
• Classroom and Craft Objects: mini erasers, pom-poms, buttons, beads...
• Toys: building blocks, small characters...

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Kim Naiman

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