This Phonemic Awareness Elkonin Boxes Activity is a fun and engaging tool designed to enhance phonemic awareness skills in students of all levels. This activity encourages young learners to build a strong foundation in phonics, phonological awareness, and spelling while having a blast!

Product Features:

• Elkonin Boxes provide a visually appealing and interactive platform for students to segment and identify individual sounds in words. Each box represents a single sound, making it easy for students to isolate and focus on individual phonemes.
• Differentiated Approach: Our activity is thoughtfully differentiated to cater to a variety of learners. For students who are just beginning to grasp phonemic awareness, they can simply stretch out the words and color in the corresponding counters for each sound they hear. This helps build the fundamental skill of phoneme segmentation.
• Writing Component: For more advanced learners, this activity can offer an additional challenge. In addition to coloring the counters, they can write the sounds they hear, fostering a deeper understanding of phoneme-grapheme correspondence. This extension encourages spelling skills and reinforces the connection between sounds and letters.
• Multisensory Learning: By engaging students in both auditory and visual processing, our activity maximizes learning potential. The act of saying the words slowly and coloring the counters adds a kinesthetic element, promoting multisensory learning, which enhances retention and understanding. You can also use the blank Elkonin boxes with manipulatives such as erasers, two-sided counters, pennies, play-dough balls, etc to make this a hands-on experience.

You will receive the following:

• Six worksheets with nine words on each page to segment and color
• Six worksheets with nine words on each page to segment, color, and write
• Four worksheets for students to draw their own pictures to segment and/or write (differentiated)
• Blank Elkonin boxes for three sounds, four sounds, and five sounds in color and black and white. Choose Elkonin boxes with arrows, writing lines, and colored counters or boxes with arrows.

Research-Backed: This activity is based on solid research and best practices in early literacy education. Phonemic awareness is a crucial skill that predicts future reading success, and this activity aims to lay a strong foundation for lifelong reading abilities.