Support your students as they connect speech to print with this Science of Reading-aligned Sound Wall featuring real mouth pictures for every phoneme.
This resource helps young readers build a deeper understanding of how sounds are formed—and how they map to letters and spelling patterns.
Designed for K–2 classrooms and intervention settings, this resource makes the phoneme-grapheme connection explicit through vowel valley, consonant charts, and small group supports. The real mouth pictures give students a visual model of articulation, reinforcing how a sound is made.
What’s Included:
Getting Started Guide
- What is a sound wall?
- How can I use a sound wall?
- How sound walls support the Science of Reading
- Vowel Valley vs. Consonant Chart
- How to set up and use the sound wall
Vowel Valley
- Vowel phonemes with real mouth pictures and/or clipart
- Includes labels and “locks” for gradual release
Consonant Chart
- Consonant phonemes with real mouth pictures and/or clipart
- Labels and “locks” included for gradual release
Phoneme-Grapheme Mini Cards
- Easily reference spelling patterns for each sound, notes for place and manner of articulation
Mini / Portable Sound Wall
- Student-sized vowel valley and consonant chart
Articulation Tools
- Place & Manner of Articulation Cheat Sheet
- Place & Manner of Articulation Teaching Slides (PPT & Google Slides™)
Practice Pages
- Phoneme-grapheme connection practice pages
Why This Resource Works:
Sound walls help students organize and internalize the phonemes of spoken language and match them to their corresponding graphemes in print.
With real mouth visuals and structured guidance, your students will better understand how sounds are produced and why they matter for decoding and encoding.
Whether you're launching a sound wall for the first time or refreshing your structured literacy routines, this resource has everything you need to build, teach, and integrate sound walls with confidence.
