Here is how you can use this simple, effective, and free strategy to boost literacy skills. What is a Word Box?
Have the student draw the correct number of boxes below the picture.
Using word boxes is simple and can be done with a blank template or simply drawn on a whiteboard.
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 (