CVC Sound Boxes: Holiday-Themed Elkonin Boxes Freebie

Need some sound boxes (Elkonin boxes) for your science of reading curriculum? Emergent readers will love these holiday-themed CVC sound boxes! These differentiated cards will help your early readers with phonological awareness or orthographic mapping, depending on how you choose to use them.

There are six sets of sound box task cards with twelve CVC word cards in each. One set has all the letters provided for each word. Students can tap each letter, make its sound, and blend the sounds to make the word. Each part of this activity is scaffolded for them. There are three sets with the beginning, ending, and vowel sound provided as a scaffold. One set has the beginning and ending sound, and students just have to give the middle sound. The final set has only blank boxes.

I printed, laminated, and cut these cards out. I have students tap the boxes to make the sound or slide a colored token in each box as they say each sound. These activities that focus on sounds will help develop phonemic awareness. To practice orthographic mapping, students can also write the letters in the appropriate box with a dry erase marker.

This freebie will be a part of my winter-themed sound box set! Check it out!

Thank you for considering this activity! Happy Teaching!