Please scroll down to see PDF files for the older wall charts for the various teaching levels.
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To see the newer wall charts, click here.
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General Information About The Wall Charts And The Pictures On The Charts
Before I designed the newest wall charts, I created several large wall chart versions that show the alphabet letters and related sound pictures, a handwriting model for each letter, and any additional letter patterns that represent the same sound in words. For example, the long a sound can be shown with with the ai/rain, ay/play, and a_e/safe patterns. There were separate cards for each of the various vowel sounds, for example the short a/ax sound, the long a/raven sound, and the dotted a/all sound. Some of the chart versions also included key words with the patterns. The PDF files below show several different versions of these earlier charts. You can also see pictures of several versions of the older charts. These are pictures are from my first grade classroom. While the PDF files and pictures are similar, they are not always exactly the same, because I continued revising some of the files even after I retired.
Information About The Sound Story Pictures
The sound pictures are taken from A Sound Story About Audrey And Brad. The pictures represent the various speech sounds in the English language. For example, a growling dog shows the /r/ sound, and a ticking clock shows the /t/ sound. There are enough pictures to show the sound or sounds for any letter or letter pattern in the English language. Part one of the sound story shows the alphabet sounds, including all of the consonant sounds, the short vowel sounds, and the long i sound. Part two of the story shows the rest of the long vowel sounds, other additional vowel sounds, and the consonant digraph sounds. (Click here and here to see parts one and two of the sound story and the related letters and sound pictures. You will be able to hear the story read aloud.)
How To Use The Older Versions Of The Sound Charts
The charts are large, so that you can use them with the whole class. Post the charts that match your students' current reading level on a large area of the classroom wall. The charts are used to introduce new phonics patterns and review previous patterns. Using a long pointer, point to each letter or pattern as a warm-up at the beginning of your instructional period. The students should say the sound in unison as you point to each pattern. If students forget a sound, point to the related sound picture to help them remember it. Model the sounds and have students repeat as needed, until they can say the sounds with confidence, without help.
At the beginning of the year, use blank sheets of paper to cover any letters or letter patterns that have not yet been taught. You will skip these patterns during the daily sound review. Whenever you teach a new letter or letter pattern, uncover it, and introduce it to the class from the wall chart. Afterwards, include it in the daily review.
Large Wall Charts That Show Alphabet Letters And Phonics Patterns
These sets of wall cards includes alphabet cards and phonogram cards that are printed on legal sized paper or card stock. Each card shows a model of the correct letter formation for that letter of the alphabet. A sound picture is shown with each letter or letter pattern to show the sound that it represents. Sound pictures from both part one and two of the sound story are included. The PDF files shown below are similar to the pictures from my classroom, but they are not exactly the same. There are several different versions of these wall cards. Please open the PDF files to see more details about how they are set up.
Both the short and long vowel sounds are shown for each vowel. If a sound picture can be represented by more than one letter or letter pattern, the additional patterns are shown below the card. In some sets the key words are also included. The dotted a, o, and u vowel sounds are also shown. At this stage, however, I was not yet using the dotted sounds for the letters e and i, as in e/ballet and i/pizza. The dotted e sound is the same as the long a sound, so the ei/veil, ey/they, and e/ballet patterns are shown under the long a card. The dotted i sound is the same as the long e sound, so the i/pizza and ie/shield patterns are shown under the long e card.
PDF Files For Older Wall Charts That Include Sound Pictures, Handwriting Models, And Alternate Spellings
There are two different versions of this PDF file. These files show alternate patterns for the vowel sounds, but do not show key words for those patterns.
- In version one, all of the letters and letter patterns on the main cards are printed in black print, as shown on the pictures on this page. (However, the various phonics patterns that appear below the main card are shown in color.)
- In version two, the vowels on the main cards are printed in specific colors to indicate the various vowel sounds.
Click on either of the green bars below to open the PDF files for the wall cards.
Use the two PDF files shown below to add additional elements to the PDF files shown above. to show consonant digraphs, the oi/oy and ou/ow vowel sounds, r-controlled vowel patterns, and soft c and g sounds,
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Print these digraph forest pictures on green, yellow, or orange card stock to use with the brown tree trunks included in the set described below. Or print the tree trunks in this file on brown paper. This file includes consonant digraph patterns sh, th, ch, ph, and gh.
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Print these full color charts on legal sized paper. Evergreen trees are used to show ending patterns ck, ng, nk, and dge. Large designs show "bossy r" patterns with pictures that illustrate their key words, a sun image to show the ce, ci, cy patterns, and an airplane picture to show the ge, gi, gy patterns. Brown tree trunks are also included.
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These charts have black and white sound pictures and show the alphabet letters on lines for handwriting reference. Both long and short vowel sounds are included, along with some extra sounds, such as sh, oi, etc. The various vowel patterns are shown on either colored backgrounds or plain white backgrounds. On these charts, lower case letters are shown before the capital letters, because these are the letters most frequently used by the students.
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Print this set of charts on legal sized paper. The charts show short, long, and dotted vowel sounds, basic consonants along with advanced consonant patterns, umbrella vowels, odd o patterns, sounds for y, bossy r patterns, and consonant digraph patterns and any advanced ending syllable patterns that have the digraph sounds. The phonics patterns and key words have color-coded vowels. A sound picture is included on each page.
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Here are pictures that show charts that are similar to the older PDF files shown above. Click on any picture to enlarge it. These are charts I had on my first grade classroom wall at various times from about 2005 through 2011. Even though I've added newer charts to match the charts in the newer Sound City Reading books, I still really like these older charts.
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On the charts below, the patterns that have not yet been introduced have been turned to face the wall.
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"Crayon Wall Charts" - Another Older Wall Chart Design
Click on any of the photos of the crayon charts to enlarge them. The picture on the right side of the top row shows a combination of the crayon charts with the original version of the Secret Stories charts (see https://www.thesecretstories.com/ for the newest version of those charts, which are now much improved; it's a very good program).
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Original Wall Charts From About 1992 - These were my first "Sound City" charts
Unfortunately, these pictures were taken with an instant print camera in 1992, and they have faded to the point that they are mostly illegible. I did the lettering and drew the pictures by hand. See more information about how I made these charts below the pictures.
These charts are not available as PDF files. However, you can add triangular roofs to any of the wall chart PDF files available on this website, along with streets and other images to create a "Sound City" of your own, if you wish.
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To make these charts, I started with a large sheet of blue paper as a background, and put a border around it. I wrote the phonics patterns, pictures, and key words that I was teaching on sheets of white paper by hand, sorting them into logical groups. I arranged them in two rows, one above the other. I added construction paper triangles to the top of each chart so that they would look like houses, creating a "Sound City."
I used black construction paper to make the streets. I used chalk to make a dashed line along the center of each road. I happened to have some green textured vinyl sheets that I cut slightly wider than the roads. I placed the green pieces on the area below the houses first, then put the roads on top of the green strips. This was meant to show grass on either side of the streets.
I continued the city theme by writing the beginning consonant blends and ending consonant blends on construction paper shapes. I drew several large trucks and placed them on the roads. I stacked up the shapes for beginning consonant blends on one truck and put the ending consonant blends on another truck. I also put up two airplanes pulling banners. I do not recall exactly where all the patterns are placed on these charts. The houses that have white roofs with a black border show the long vowel patterns, with one house showing all the possible patterns that can represent that particular long vowel sound. You can see that the colors around these long vowel houses match the color-coding for the vowels.
Above the long a house you can see house on the left that shows the short vowel sounds and a house just to the right of it that shows the long vowel sounds, using key word pictures.
