Develop one of the most important foundations for reading success with the Elkonin Box Magnetic Dry-Erase Boards – Phonemic Awareness & Sound Mapping Boards (Set of 8). These reusable boards help children hear, segment, and blend the individual sounds in spoken words, building the phonemic awareness skills that support both reading and spelling development.

Using the sound boxes and movable slider, children work through each sound they hear in a word before blending the sounds together to read or spell the word. This visual, hands-on approach helps make abstract language concepts more concrete, allowing children to better understand how words are made up of individual sounds.

The set includes 8 magnetic dry-erase boards, making it an excellent resource for classrooms, literacy centres, guided reading groups, intervention programs, homeschool families, and small-group instruction. The reusable format allows for repeated practice with different words and skill levels, making it a versatile tool for both beginning readers and students requiring additional phonics support.

Widely used in structured literacy and Science of Reading instruction, Elkonin boxes provide meaningful practice with essential phonemic awareness skills, including segmenting, blending, adding, deleting, and substituting sounds within words.

This hands-on literacy resource supports learning connected to the Ontario Kindergarten Program and primary Language curriculum as children develop phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondence, decoding skills, spelling skills, and word analysis strategies through interactive learning experiences.

Skills Developed:

• Phonemic awareness

• Sound segmentation and blending

• Phoneme manipulation

• Decoding and word-reading skills

• Encoding and spelling skills

• Letter-sound correspondence

• Word analysis skills

• Reading fluency development

Best for: Ages 4+ • Kindergarten to Grade 3 • Home learning, literacy centres, classrooms, guided reading groups, intervention programs, resource teachers, homeschool families, and children developing foundational reading and spelling skills through structured literacy instruction