Stretchy the word snake

I am loving stretchy the word snake Deanna Jump posted on her blog. I’ve been able to use him in my guided reading groups and my kids love it. The children build words in the boxes. Then they use tiny cars to drive slowly as they say the phoneme. Drive the cars faster to blend the phonemes together. I found the tiny cars in the party aisle at Target.


Same idea as Elkonin sound boxes, just much cuter!