🗣️A sound wall only works if children actually use it, and this set gives them 252 reasons to look up. Every poster pairs a clear pattern with a key picture, a plain-words rule and a mouth tip, so K–2 children can find the spelling they need and say the sound while they do it.
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This set gives Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade teachers 252 phonics and spelling posters organized into 15 units, from letters and sounds through syllables, suffixes, prefixes and spelling-change rules. Each poster shows a large target pattern, how the sound is represented, a key picture, a rule in plain words, a mouth tip and practice words with the pattern picked out. It is built for a classroom sound wall, and every poster has a matching notebook card so the same rule can live in each child's notebook too.
The set comes in two editions, soft color and black-and-white low-ink, and each edition runs 371 pages. You choose the look that fits your printing budget and your wall, and the content is the same either way. Posters print full-page on US Letter paper, or at 129% for 11x17 anchor charts, so the same file can serve a small-group table and a whole-class wall.
The 15 units follow a teaching order. Early units cover letters and sounds, short vowels and word families, consonant teams and blends. Later units move through silent e, syllables, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams and diphthongs, silent letters, suffixes and prefixes, and the rules for changing spellings, including doubling, dropping the silent e and changing y to i. A set of units helps children choose between spellings, such as c or k and ai or ay, and 12 sound-spelling charts pull the patterns together.
Planning support is built in: a teacher guide, grade-level recommendations, a scope and sequence, a 36-week pacing plan and a 10-minute daily phonics routine. Each of the 15 units ends with a quick check in two parts, an assessment and a sort or fill-in activity, with complete answer keys. That makes the set useful for whole-class phonics, literacy centers, intervention, RTI, small groups and homeschool.
📖 Teaching guide · 13 min readSetting Up a Sound Wall That Children Actually Use: Posters, a 10-Minute Routine and a 36-Week PlanRead the guide →Children can see, hear and say each pattern in the same place every day, and the matching notebook cards let them carry the rule to their seat. The units build in order, the routine takes ten minutes, and the quick checks show which patterns need another round before the class moves on.
There are 252 posters in 15 units, with 252 matching notebook cards, one for every poster.
Each edition is 371 pages. There are two editions, soft color and black-and-white low-ink, so choose one edition rather than printing both.
It is written for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade, with grade-level recommendations in the teacher guide. It also works for intervention, RTI, small groups and homeschool.
Each of the 15 units ends with a quick check in two parts: a Part A assessment and a Part B sort or fill-in activity. Complete answer keys are included.
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