Let's break this down. A phoneme is a sound. Phoneme segmentation is the ability to break words into individual sounds. For example, cat would be /c/ /a/ /t/. This skill will lead to strong reading development and fluency.
Students in kindergarten and first grade focus heavily on phoneme segmentation, using CVC sound boxes for blending and phonological awareness. Research shows kids who struggle with phonological awareness will not be strong readers.
When using CVC sound boxes, kids have a visual representation to see how many sounds are in the word. Using tactile objects and kinesthetic movements, such as manipulatives and tapping one sound for each box, are excellent reading intervention strategies for kids learning to read.
These FREE CVC sound box worksheets truly become an interactive reading experience for emergent readers.
Items to use with CVC Sound Boxes:
- Bear Counters
- Skittles
- m&m's
- Unifix cubes
- Buttons
- Chip counters
- Cereal (fruit loops, cheerios, etc)
- Mini erasers
- Playdoh
In this video of kids using the free CVC sound boxes to learn how to read, you will see sound boxes with pictures located to the left. The cvc pictures are the same cvc word family pictures that I focus on when introducing a new word family, such as the -et words.
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