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Word Mapping Tools
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Sound boxes–also known as Elkonin boxes (Elkonin, 1973) are a great way to support children’s brains as they practice orthographic mapping. In this download, we offer you a variety of templates to support ongoing use of sound boxes to make the abstract work of aligning phonemes and graphemes more concrete and lock words into long-term memory. (From Shift 4 in Shifting the Balance; 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom.)
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