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As students advance, move to words with blends ( flag ) and digraphs ( ship ).

Word boxes (also known as "Elkonin boxes" or sound boxes) are a visual graphic organizer used in reading intervention. A word box is created by dividing a rectangle with vertical lines, where the number of boxes corresponds to the number of sounds (phonemes) in a word, not necessarily the number of letters. For example: ( ) would have 3 boxes. Fish (

Ask the student to say the word and count each sound. word box

Guide the student to place letter tiles or write the letters that represent each sound into the corresponding box.

) would have 3 boxes (even though there are 4 letters, 'sh' makes one sound). ( ) would have 4 boxes. Why Are Word Boxes Effective? As students advance, move to words with blends

Enter the strategy—a powerful, visual tool designed to help students connect the phonological properties of words (sounds) to their orthographic features (spelling patterns).

After placing letters, students blend them back together to read the word. For example: ( ) would have 3 boxes

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