Winter-Themed Sound Boxes: CVC, Digraphs, Beginning & End Blends Bundle

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

CVC Sound Boxes:

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 Boxes

These digraphs are included:

-ck

sh

ch

wh

th

There are six sets of sound box task cards with twelve digraph 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.

Beginning Blend Sound Boxes

There are seven sets of sound box task cards with twelve beginning blend 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 is a set with the beginning blend as a scaffold. There are several sets with one letter provided as a scaffold. One set has the beginning and ending sound, and students just have to give the middle sounds. The final set has only blank boxes.

Ending Blend Sound Boxes

There are seven sets of sound box task cards with twelve ending blend 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 is a set with the ending blend as a scaffold. There are several sets with one letter provided as a scaffold. One set has the beginning and ending sound, and students just have to give the middle sounds. The final set has only blank boxes.

I printed, laminated, and cut all 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 bundle of resources! Happy Teaching!