Fall Sound Box Bundle: CVC, Digraphs, Beginning and End Blend Elkonin Boxes

Need some sound boxes (Elkonin boxes) for your science of reading curriculum? Emergent and beginning readers will love this fall-themed sound box bundle! These differentiated cards will help your early readers with phonological awareness or orthographic mapping, depending on how you choose to use them. There are 90 pages with four task cards on each in this set!

CVC Sound Box Task Cards: Fall Themed Elkonin Boxes with Pictures

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.

Digraph Sound Box Task Cards

There are six sets of sound box task cards with twelve digraph word cards in each. The following digraphs are included:

• th
• sh
• ch
• wh
• =ck

The "th" and "sh" digraphs appear at the beginning and end of words in the set. 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.

Beginning Blend Sound Box Task Cards

There are eight sets of sound box task cards with twelve beginning blend word cards in each. The following blends are included:

• sl-
• st-
• sm-
• sn-
• bl-
• br-
• cr-
• dr-
• fl-
• gr-
• pr-
• tr-
• cl-

The "ck" and "th" digraphs appear at the ends of words in the set. 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 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. One set has the beginning blend provided. The final set has only blank boxes.

End Blend Sound Box Task Cards

There are eight sets of sound box task cards with twelve end blend word cards in each. The following blends are included:

• -st
• -nt
• -nd
• -nk
• -ng (digraph)
• -sk
• -ft
• -pt
• -mp

The beginning blend sl- and digraph ch- appear at the beginning of some of the words.

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 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 sounds. One set has the end blend provided. The final set has only blank boxes.

Bonus CVC Fall Themed Freebie

There are two 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. The final set has only blank boxes.

Ideas for Use

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.

Thank you for considering this activity! Happy Teaching!