At South Marshall Elementary in Marshall County, students are diving into foundational literacy through fun and interactive instruction. During a recent foundational skills lesson, students engaged in a variety of multi-sensory activities designed to reinforce their understanding of letters and sounds. They practiced stretching and tapping out sounds in words and worked on writing both letters and words, creating an engaging environment that supports early literacy development.

Students reinforced their phonics skills by tracing letters in the sand while saying the corresponding sounds aloud.

Students used slinkies to stretch out words, allowing them to hear and isolate each sound.

Students tapped out individual sounds, wrote the letters to match the sounds and used toy cars to blend the sounds together.

To learn more about the components of literacy known as phonemic awareness and phonics, read these one-pagers:  Phonemic Awareness At a Glance and Phonics At a Glance. For a more comprehensive understanding of six of the most important components of literacy, take a look at the Literacy At a Glance Collection.