Working pairs, early readers put their hands into a mystery box, pull out an item, then name and identify its initial phoneme. 

Concepts

phonemic awareness, phonemes, initial sounds, phonics, letter-sound correspondence, emergent reading

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Additional Tags

early reading, letter sounds, phonemic awareness, letter sound identification, initial phonemes, phoneme isolating, english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use at a center or to introduce the concept of phoneme isolation to the entire class
• Direct pupils to place the object under the grapheme representing each item's initial sound
  

Classroom Considerations

• Requires preparing the box and gathering objects

Pros

• It uses actual objects instead of pictures

Cons

• None

Common Core

RF.K.2.c RF.1.2.c