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Elkonin boxes build phonological awareness skills by segmenting words into individual sounds, or phonemes. To use Elkonin boxes, a child listens to a word and moves a token into a box for each sound or phoneme. In some cases different colored tokens may be used for consonants and vowels or just for each phoneme in the word. Pronounce a target word slowly, stretching it out by sound.Ask the child to repeat the word.Have the child count the number of phonemes in the word, not necessarily the numbe