I have loved your resources on TPT for years now and I am so excited for your Science of Reading resources! Worth every penny. This is the first time I have seen a video of you and you are exactly how I imagined you to be. 🙂 I am certain your students love you!
Oh Christina! I wish you'd come back to be our literacy coach! Thank you for creating such a beautiful and effective product for teachers to use! As always, you think of everything! My colleagues and I are embracing the sound board this year and are excited to learn along with our students. Thank you for this helpful video! You rock!!!
Aww, thank you so much for this kind message, Jennifer! I am thrilled to know you are giving a sound wall a try this year. So glad the video is helpful to you. Always feel free to reach out with any questions that may pop up along the way!
Firstly, this is amazing and I love how you refined your recommendations for the locks. I just wondered have you made any up dates to key words since you made this video. Coming from England to the USA I’ve noticed students with more southern accents words ending -in and -en are really difficult for them to differentiate. I noticed the key word ten for /e/ I know it’s a common word because of counting but just wondered if a different key word may be more appropriate in some cases to help those students who are struggling, like pet or bed.
HI Christina, I have purchased the bundle and watched the videos. Thanks for all this! Do you have a picture of the consonant sound wall? I'm struggling a bit with that set up! Thanks. :-)
Hi Dawn, In this blog post you can see two different options for setting up the consonant sound wall! Hope it helps! mrswintersbliss.com/how-to-set-up-a-sound-wall-in-your-classroom/
Great video and resource! Two questions: 1.) is there a best practice for using certain color cards for the phonemes? 2.) what type of adhesive do you like for a.) sticking on the locks for the untaught info and b.) gluing the cards to the poster board?
HI Annie, So glad the video was helpful to you. As for colors- there is no reason for the pink. I just thought it was bright and nice looking. As for getting the cards to stick... I first laminated the cards and then just used a glue stick. For the locks you can then use a staple or a push-pin. Hope that helps!!
It was 8 x 4 for each bulletin board! If your bulletin board space is limited I’ve shared several ideas in this blog post to help you! mrswintersbliss.com/how-to-set-up-a-sound-wall-in-your-classroom/
Teaching 3rd grade this year and want to intro and use a sound wall. So these students have never seen a sound wall yet to have many sound already intro to them. Would you suggest a set up or locking of sounds.....feeling overwhelmed
Hi Kelly, You can do this!!! I applaud you for jumping in, you will be so glad you did! I would suggest looking at your school's second grade scope and sequence to see where your students left off and "lock" or cover the graphemes they have not been explicitly taught. It is likely that after last year many of your students will need extra practice and support matching the articulation of speech sounds/phonemes to the letters/graphemes that represent those sounds as they are blending, segmenting and determining how to spell words. If you'd like more guidance, I've created a teacher guide for your sound wall with explicit lessons and student activities. You can take a closer look here >> mrswintersbliss.com/product/sound-wall-explicit-lessons-and-sound-wall-activities/. You got this! --Christina
A 2nd grade sound wall would be set up just the same, it would just have more graphemes uncovered because you would uncover everything they learned in K and 1.
Will someone please post an actual lesson with the sound wall in an actual class. I All I see is the set up, show me what an actual step by step lesson looks like.Does anyone actually know how to use it?
Hi Paula, This blog post may be helpful to you. In it, I share a teacher's guide for using a sound wall. It includes explicit lesson plans and student activities. mrswintersbliss.com/sound-wall-teachers-guide-lesson-plans-activities/ Hope it helps!
I have loved your resources on TPT for years now and I am so excited for your Science of Reading resources! Worth every penny. This is the first time I have seen a video of you and you are exactly how I imagined you to be. 🙂 I am certain your students love you!
Thanks for your kind words, Andrea! I appreciate your support!!
I love your video. This will be great for my first graders.
I would love to get more reading info of the science that bag up reading. I will be ordering the books you presented in this video.
Oh Christina! I wish you'd come back to be our literacy coach! Thank you for creating such a beautiful and effective product for teachers to use! As always, you think of everything! My colleagues and I are embracing the sound board this year and are excited to learn along with our students. Thank you for this helpful video! You rock!!!
Aww, thank you so much for this kind message, Jennifer! I am thrilled to know you are giving a sound wall a try this year. So glad the video is helpful to you. Always feel free to reach out with any questions that may pop up along the way!
Firstly, this is amazing and I love how you refined your recommendations for the locks.
I just wondered have you made any up dates to key words since you made this video.
Coming from England to the USA I’ve noticed students with more southern accents words ending -in and -en are really difficult for them to differentiate. I noticed the key word ten for /e/ I know it’s a common word because of counting but just wondered if a different key word may be more appropriate in some cases to help those students who are struggling, like pet or bed.
HI Christina, I have purchased the bundle and watched the videos. Thanks for all this! Do you have a picture of the consonant sound wall? I'm struggling a bit with that set up! Thanks. :-)
Hi Dawn, In this blog post you can see two different options for setting up the consonant sound wall! Hope it helps! mrswintersbliss.com/how-to-set-up-a-sound-wall-in-your-classroom/
Where would I find the large sound wall cards with the capital and lowercase letter on top? I can't seem to find those cards.
Those are the Sound Spelling charts and can be found inside the 2nd PDF of the Sound Wall Download.
Super excited to start using this. Would you recommend printing it all on cardstock and laminating it?
Yes! If you can, I think that is the best way to do it. I am super excited for you!!
Please put the reading resources in the comments. Thank you.
Great video and resource!
Two questions:
1.) is there a best practice for using certain color cards for the phonemes?
2.) what type of adhesive do you like for a.) sticking on the locks for the untaught info and b.) gluing the cards to the poster board?
HI Annie, So glad the video was helpful to you. As for colors- there is no reason for the pink. I just thought it was bright and nice looking. As for getting the cards to stick... I first laminated the cards and then just used a glue stick. For the locks you can then use a staple or a push-pin. Hope that helps!!
Thanks so much! How do you attach the lock to the card?
Velcro tape
Does the 8' space you mentioned include both the consonants and vowel valley?
It was 8 x 4 for each bulletin board! If your bulletin board space is limited I’ve shared several ideas in this blog post to help you! mrswintersbliss.com/how-to-set-up-a-sound-wall-in-your-classroom/
Is there a lesson we can see? Like a teacher modeling a lesson?
Teaching 3rd grade this year and want to intro and use a sound wall. So these students have never seen a sound wall yet to have many sound already intro to them. Would you suggest a set up or locking of sounds.....feeling overwhelmed
Hi Kelly, You can do this!!! I applaud you for jumping in, you will be so glad you did! I would suggest looking at your school's second grade scope and sequence to see where your students left off and "lock" or cover the graphemes they have not been explicitly taught. It is likely that after last year many of your students will need extra practice and support matching the articulation of speech sounds/phonemes to the letters/graphemes that represent those sounds as they are blending, segmenting and determining how to spell words. If you'd like more guidance, I've created a teacher guide for your sound wall with explicit lessons and student activities. You can take a closer look here >> mrswintersbliss.com/product/sound-wall-explicit-lessons-and-sound-wall-activities/. You got this! --Christina
Great great great
Very good video
Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful to you!
What does a 2nd grade sound wall look like
A 2nd grade sound wall would be set up just the same, it would just have more graphemes uncovered because you would uncover everything they learned in K and 1.
Will someone please post an actual lesson with the sound wall in an actual class. I
All I see is the set up, show me what an actual step by step lesson looks like.Does anyone actually know how to use it?
Hi Paula, This blog post may be helpful to you. In it, I share a teacher's guide for using a sound wall. It includes explicit lesson plans and student activities. mrswintersbliss.com/sound-wall-teachers-guide-lesson-plans-activities/ Hope it helps!
@@christinawinter I will take a look thanks
Super complicated for adults I guess even worse for students
What does a 2nd grade sound wall look like