Elkonin Boxes: A Literacy Tool for Beginning Readers Specifications
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Elkonin boxes are a great tool for beginning and struggling readers to build phonological awareness by segmenting words into sounds.
Elkonin boxes are a great tool for beginning and struggling readers to build phonological awareness by segmenting words into sounds. They help students practice counting the number of phonemes in a wordthough this is not always the same number of letters. Mastering this skill orally lays the foundation for both decoding and spelling.
How Elkonin Boxes Work:
1. Listen to the target word.
2. Repeat the word aloud.
3. Say it again, slowly, stretching the word out to hear all the sounds.
4. As you say the word a third time, tap one square for each sound you hear.