Description

Our seasonal mapping mats are a FUN way to engage your learners to listen for sounds (phonemes) in words, count the sounds in words, segment the sounds in words, map the sounds to letters (graphemes), and then blend the sounds to read the word! Wow!

Are you looking for an idea that can really help your learners:

Develop their phonemic awareness skills
Solidify the Alphabetic Principle
Guide learners to use orthographic mapping

Then look no further!

Seasonal Mapping Mats

These mats come in TWO OPTIONS:

Blackline Printable
Color Digital for Google Slides/Microsoft OneDrive

Use these mapping mats with all your learners at one time, with a small group, or just one-on-one to build vital reading and spelling skills.

In this printable/digital pack, you’ll find:

Why mapping mats are so effective at supporting our readers and spellers
Ten blackline mapping mats for each season (autumn, winter, spring, summer; including holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and more!)
Seasonal word lists (organized in a chart by the number of phonemes in each word)
Ten bonus/anytime blackline mapping mats (with no seasonal theme included)
Up to 4-phoneme mapping mats
Up to 5-phoneme mapping mats

Here’s a quick picture tutorial on how to use our seasonal mapping mats:

Call a word for learners. (top left image)
Learners then count the sounds (or phonemes) in each word. (top right image) For example, bat has three sounds or phonemes.
Once they’ve counted the sounds, learners drag the counters down into the boxes. (bottom left image)
Last, learners move each counter at a time, starting with the first counter, to write the letters that represent each sound. (bottom right image)