As a reading specialist and homeschool mom, I’m always looking for ways to help My kids become better readers. So when Hand2mind reached out and asked if I’d like to try their phoneme toolkit, it was an immediate yes for me!🙌🏻 Phonemic awareness is actually one of the strongest predictors of reading success. But how do we foster that? Well, there’s lots of different ways, but one of my favorite ways is to use these phoneme boxes.🍎 There is a box for all 44 phonemes in the English language so whether your child is learning basic letter sounds or digraphs and r-controlled vowels. This is for you! When we introduce a new sound, I love to pull out the sound box and let my child go through the objects as we name them. We use these as anchor words to help him better understand the sound and store it to long term memory. Sometimes we pull out multiple sound boxes to review the ones he’s been working on and play I Spy, sort the sound, and sound bingo!📚 If you want to make learning to read more interactive and hands on for your kids, grab a set of these phoneme boxes linked in this post.🫶🏻 LTKdayinmylife LTKmomlife LTKKids