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  • Short Vowels Skill Explainer

Short Vowel Elkonin Boxes

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Elkonin boxes, also known as sound boxes, are used to help students build phonological awareness. Each square or box represents a phoneme, or sound. Use this activity to help students practice separating the sounds in words with short vowels like jet.

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