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This is an activity that can be used to practice spelling single-syllable words

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Sound walls and word walls are two different educational tools with distinct benefits for language development and literacy enhancement.

Sound Wall

Phonemic Awareness: Sound walls focus on individual phonemes (the smallest units of sound in a language) and their corresponding graphemes (letters or letter combinations). This helps students become more aware of the sounds in words and how they are represented in writing.

Letter-Sound Correspondence: Sound walls facilitate the understanding of the relationship between letters and sounds, which is crucial for decoding and encoding words during reading and writing activities.

Spelling Support: By organizing and displaying phonemes and graphemes, sound walls aid students in improving their spelling skills and reinforce the connection between sounds and letters.

Phonics Instruction: Sound walls are an effective tool for teaching phonics, which is essential for early reading instruction.

Scaffolding for Emergent Readers: For emergent readers, sound walls provide support and visual cues to identify and distinguish different sounds in words, leading to improved reading fluency.

Word Wall

Vocabulary Expansion: Word walls focus on displaying high-frequency and important words, fostering vocabulary development and word recognition.

Visual Reference: Word walls create a visual reference of words that students can refer to during reading and writing tasks, reinforcing their spelling and reading abilities.

Language Immersion: Word walls immerse students in a print-rich environment, helping them internalize spelling patterns and common word structures.

Writing Assistance: Word walls inspire students to use new words in their writing, leading to more sophisticated language use and communication skills.

Word Relationships: Word walls can be organized thematically or by word families, helping students grasp the relationships between words and their meanings.

In summary, sound walls primarily focus on phonemic awareness, letter-sound relationships, and phonics instruction, while word walls center around vocabulary expansion, writing support, and word relationships. Both tools serve as valuable aids in the classroom to enhance language and literacy skills, and teachers often use them together to provide a comprehensive language learning environment.

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You are welcome to print copies for non-commercial use, or a limited number for educational purposes, as long as credit is given to Reading Rockets and the author(s). For commercial use, please contact the author or publisher listed.

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Transitioning from Word Walls to Sound Walls

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Sound walls support students with learning those tricky high-frequency words. They also support students in retaining and learning to read unfamiliar words on their own. A sound wall does the work of matching our articulation of speech sounds/phonemes to the letters/graphemes that represent those sounds.

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FCRR resources are for pre-kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. The activities are designed for students to practice, demonstrate, and extend their learning of what has already been taught.

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From 2004 to 2010, a team of researchers and teachers at FCRR collected ideas and created Student Center Activities for use in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. The activities are designed for students to practice, demonstrate, and extend their learning of what has already been taught, sometimes with teacher assistance and sometimes independently. Students can complete the activities in small groups, pairs, or individually.

Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center materials.

Component

Name of the reading component: Phonological Awareness (PA), Phonics (P), Fluency (F), Vocabulary (V), or Comprehension (C). Each component is color coded: PA is purple, P is orange, F is red, V is green, C is blue.

Subcomponent

Name of the reading subcomponent, which is a subskill of the component.

Activity Name

Activity Number

The letters correspond with the reading component (PA, P, F, V, or C). The numbers are listed in ascending order within each component. The activities are sequenced from simple to more complex within each component and subcomponent.

Student Icon

The suggested number of students for the activity. One student icon indicates that students may work independently or with a small group. Two student icons indicate that the activity requires students to work in pairs. Two student icons with a plus sign indicate that the activity requires two or more students.

Objective

States the goal of the activity, which is aligned with the subcomponent.

Materials

Materials are located on the pages that follow the Activity Plan. Most materials are non-consumable to be prepared and used repeatedly (e.g., word cards can be laminated). Some materials are consumable and will need to be duplicated for each student doing the activity. Other materials, such as counters, are commonly found in most classrooms.

Activity Statement

One sentence explanation of the purpose of the activity and what students do to complete the activity.

Activity Steps

The first step describes how to setup the center. The second step begins with: The student, Students, Working in pairs, or Taking turns depending on the number of students needed to complete the activity. The second step also starts the series of steps to complete the activity. The next steps explain what the student does to complete the activity. The last step lists one of three accountability methods: Self-check, Peer evaluation, or Teacher evaluation.

Example

A visual of the activity and key materials.

Extensions and Adaptations

Suggestions that extend or provide an adaptation for additional practice on the skill addressed in the activity. Materials for the extensions and adaptations are included after the pages that align to the Activity Plan.

Users may use the FCRR Student Center Activities resources as long as modifications are not made, the resources will only be used for non-profit educational purposes, and the copyright belong jointly to the Florida Department of Education and the Florida Center for Reading Research. These resources may not be used for any commercial purposes. These resources on our site may be linked to but not reposted, reproduced, modified, or copied to other sites. For questions about the use of these resources, please contact The Florida Center for Reading Research at fcrr@fcrr.org.

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From 2004 to 2010, a team of researchers and teachers at FCRR collected ideas and created Student Center Activities for use in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. The activities are designed for students to practice, demonstrate, and extend their learning of what has already been taught, sometimes with teacher assistance and sometimes independently.

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Progress monitoring assessments for individual phonemic awareness skills.

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This is an activity that can be used to practice spelling two-syllable words.

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The Phonological Awareness Screening Test (PAST) is intended to assess phonemic awareness, but also phonemic proficiency. This resource provides the assessment and an instruction guide.

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The PAST can be downloaded above. Please also download and carefully read the instructions before using. Information can also be found in the manual “Equipped for Reading Success” by David A. Kilpatrick, Ph.D in chapter 11 on how to effectively use the test. Make sure to also practice using the test before using it with […]