The Literacy Link: A Multisensory Approach to Sound-Symbol Connections

Help students make solid connections between phonemic awareness, sound-symbol relationships, and letter formation. This approach teaches hand symbols for the 29 consonants, vowels, and digraphs.

Use these symbols to teach students

• Rhyming
• Initial consonant identification
• Word families
• Phoneme blending and segmentations
• Articulatory features of each sound
• Phoneme-grapheme correspondence

Also includes

• Guidelines for determining the order of presentation of phonemes
• Written and pictorial descriptions of each hand symbol
• Lesson format and an optional lesson script
• Instruction activities

Appendices include:

• Rhyming test
• The Yopp-Singer Test of Phoneme Segmentation
• Elkonin boxes (a list of short-vowel books)
• Reproducible rhyming cards and patterns
• ABC book
• Word family book

"Sections of this book are very useful and sections are not. I like the CD that accompanies book."
- Sarita,  Chicago, IL

"I really enjoy using the symbols in this program to help children learn their speech sounds. It is a visual way to help them remember where they form their sounds in their mouth. I use these symbols every day."
- Nicole R.,  Minneapolis, MN