Builds Vital Foundational Skills
Sound Counter is designed to build student success on key foundational skills, Sound Counter is a creative approach to helping build these skills. Students are presented with a word and asked to count the sounds. For example, a student might be asked how many sounds are there in the word: read?
Students count the sounds by dragging the colorful sound makers up into the box and then hit the submit button when they’re done. If the student picked the right number, the get positive feedback and the word is shown broken up into sound boxes to reinforce their count and to demonstrate how the letter combinations form the distinct sounds.
Words Displayed with Sound Boxes
Sound Counter helps build some key foundational skills for learning to read such as phonemic awareness, phonological skills, and the alphabetic principle. Basically, this is:
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