Here's the ultimate spelling and reading tool for home and school.
ScholarSkills Sound-Smart Hearts™️ is an innovative tool designed to create alphabetic, syllabic, and phonemic awareness for exceptional foundations in spelling and reading.  The Sound-Smart Hearts Kit contains 31 red click-and-play heart-shaped devices that have pre-recorded phonemic sounds and letter labels to spell or represent each sound. 
This V.I.T.A.L. (or visual, interactive, tactile, and auditory learning) strategy cultivates alphabetic knowledge, auditory discrimination, and phonemic awareness. The Sound-Smart Hearts™️ kit includes a mouth position chart to help children focus on accurate articulation. Sound-Smart Hearts™️  helps parents detect and correct potential reading problems at the earliest and most sensitive stages of literacy. At T.A.G. ScholarSkills, we value multisensory tools that aid in V.I.T.A.L. Therapy and Orton-Gillingham strategies to support all readers effectively.
 
This kit can be used to help kids spell the syllabic structures in Sound and Say Book One and the short vowel words in Sound and Say Book Two (The Analytical Spelling Book). It can also be used with Spell that Sound, our online auditory spelling course.
 
Your goal is to help students develop alphabetic, syllabic, and phonemic awareness while sharpening auditory discrimination so that when they hear letter, syllable, and word sounds, they see spellings of letters, syllables, and words in their minds. And when they see printed letters, syllables, and words, they hear the sounds that those letters, syllables, and words represent. In effect, when kids hear speech sounds, they should see alphabet symbols; when they see printed alphabet symbols, they should hear speech sounds.
 
Lesson tips: Here's a step-by-step guide on how to effectively use Sound-Smart Hearts™️to help children build a strong foundation in spelling, reading, and writing.
 
 First, decide which syllable sounds or words you want your students to spell. Next, before you begin the spelling lesson, have your students remove each letter-sound module from the box you plan to use so they can align the letters in the proper spelling-sound sequence as they spell. When students arrange these colorful, tangible spelling modules in the proper letter-sound sequence, it creates a solid orthographic image (or spelling picture) of the words in their minds, which they can use to spell or decode other syllables or words.
 
Lesson suggestions:
Teach students to connect the spellings to the sounds by having them touch each sound and write the letter down. If they still need to learn to write, use your alphabet letter-sound cards to represent and spell each sound. Do the same for each of the exercises below.
Teach students to spell syllables such as (ab, eb, ib,) by having them touch each sound and write the letters down that spell the syllable sound.
Teach students to spell CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant) words by having them touch each sound and write the letters that spell each word.
Repeat this cycle of connecting sounds to symbols and symbols to sound by spelling longer words. 
You can also delete a letter and sound and ask students to add the sound and letter that completes the word. Try this with syllables and then three-letter C-V-C words. 
Show students that words can have more letters than sounds. For example, press the "r," "E (long /e/" and "d" letters to spell the word "read." Ask the students to count the letters in the word "read." Now, ask them to count the sounds that make up the word once again. Show them that reading consists of four letters but only three sounds. This exercise reinforces the alphabetic principle while sharpening phonemic awareness, auditory discrimination, and spelling skills.
With Sound-Smart Hearts™, you can have fun knowing that you are helping your students build solid reading foundations. By training their ears to hear and their minds to see the sounds and letters we use to say, spell, and write every English word, Sound-Smart Hearts™ provides a supportive role in the learning process, reinforcing the alphabetic principle while sharpening phonemic awareness, auditory discrimination, and spelling skills.
Get creative and let your imagination run wild with Sound-Smart Hearts™. ScholarSkills Sound-Smart Hearts™ offers endless possibilities for use, whether at home or in the classroom, making the learning process not just effective but also fun and engaging.
 
***Note: You may need to reinforce the voiceless sounds, such as /f/ since they are difficult to record. However, once you help your students align the sound with the letter, they will be able to work with each sound. Feel free to contact us directly at (833) 433-READ. Thanks again for sharing this special tool with your students.