Best Practices Video Reflection – Building Words with Sound Boxes

Best Practices Video Reflection – Building Words with Sound Boxes

Elkonin sound boxes are effective tools for students practicing building words with different sound-spelling patterns. Students place each sound in each of the boxes. Hence, a box can contain more than one letter based on the sounds that make it (Institute of Education Sciences, 2016). However, the silent-e of any word is placed outside the sound boxes since they do not relate to any specific sound within the word. Thus, when writing on the sound boxes or using the letter tiles to represent each sound, the silent-e is placed outside the boxes.

Consonant digraphs are multi-letter consonants that make one sound in a word (Foorman et al., 2016). Consonant digraphs should be placed in one box of the Elkonin sound boxes since they represent one phoneme. For instance, the word ‘phone,’ /ph/ is a consonant digraph and should be represented in a single box in word building activity using the sound boxes. Like consonant digraphs, vowel teams are placed in a single box in the sound boxes. Vowel teams consist of numerous letters representing a single vowel sound (Foorman et al., 2016). For example, in the word ‘boat,’ ‘oa’ makes /o/ sound. Hence, the two letters should be placed in a single box.

Additionally, the r-controlled vowels are represented in one box in the Elkonin sound boxes. When an ‘r’ follows a vowel, it makes a unique single sound. Since each sound in a word is presented in its box, the r-controlled vowel will be incorporated in a single box. For instance, in the word ‘corner,’ the sounds will be represented as /c/ /or/ /n/ /er/. Elkonin sound boxes help represent each sound in a word despite the sound made by consonant digraphs, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, or other sound-spelling patterns.

References

Foorman, B., Beyler, N., Borradaile, K., Coyne, M., Denton, C. A., Dimino, J., … & Wissel, S. (2016). Foundational skills to support reading for understanding in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Educator’s Practice Guide. NCEE 2016-4008. What Works Clearinghouse.

REL Program. (Director). (2016). Video 22: Building words with sound boxes [Motion Picture]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTBiusQHpnQ

Institute of Education Sciences. (2016, September 14). Video 22: Building Words with Sound Boxes [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTBiusQHpnQ

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After reading What Works Clearinghouse: Practice Guide for Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kinder Through 3rd Grade, pages 25-26, watch the following video on Building Words with Sound Boxes.

To read the 25-26 pages, you can click this link to the WWC Practice Guide.

Before watching the following video, print and record your notes on the corresponding worksheet that can be printed from the Best Practices Video Reflections page.

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/HTBiusQHpnQ. Links to an external site.

Post your responses to the following:

1. Explain why the silent-e should be placed outside the sound boxes.
2. Explain why consonant digraphs should be placed in one box.
3. Explain where to place a vowel team (for example, oa, ea, igh). Explain why.
4. Explain where to place an r-controlled vowel (for example, ar, er, ir). Explain why.

Remember to comment on your classmates’ posts (at least two). Your original post and responses will be graded using the Discussion Board rubric.