Visually assess students’ phonemic awareness and phonics skills with our easy-to-use Elkonin Box Magnetic Answer Boards! Elkonin boxes, also called sound boxes, allow students to segment words into individual sounds, or phonemes. These durable, double-sided answer boards provide a multisensory, tactile approach to literacy that prepares students to become confident readers by building phonemic awareness, phonics, and early literacy skills. Using colorful foam magnets, children will identify, find, and manipulate sounds, stretch out words into their sounds, and practice decoding. Pink heart magnets are provided for sounds in words that include unknown spelling patterns. This set includes magnetic foam circles to depict sounds, magnetic foam hearts to teach high-frequency words using the “heart-word" method, and a Getting Started Guide.​ For over 55 years, hand2mind has encouraged hands-on learning and discovery, driving deeper understanding and helping children unlock their full potential. hand2mind specializes in literacy activities and products designed to help students learn by doing. With products designed to help students with reading comprehension, sentence building, phonics for toddlers and more. We're also a leader in dyslexic tools for kids who have a tougher time getting started with reading. From early reading to advanced reading, hand2mind has you covered with products designed to enhance learning in the classroom and the world around us. Through hands-on exploration and discovery, we strive to find new ways to encourage students in math practice, literacy activities, STEM education and more!