Teacher Tools

Tools for teaching how words work

Plan phoneme-grapheme mapping lessons, explore speech sounds, and teach letterbox lessons on screen — with supported word lists organized by phonics pattern.

Choose the right words, map sounds to spellings, and move straight from planning to teaching. No student accounts required.

Preloaded word banks Plan → teach workflow No student logins

Not sure where to start?

Choose the question that sounds most like what you need today.

“How many phonemes are in this word?” Phoneme Counter
“How do I build and teach a letterbox lesson?” Phoneme Counter → Letterbox Lesson
“How do I explain or model a specific speech sound?” Interactive Phoneme Map

Plan, map, and teach

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Step 1 — Choose or enter words

Use organized word banks or type your own words.

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Step 2 — Count and map sounds

Use the Phoneme Counter to count phonemes and review phonemes, graphemes, and letterbox mapping.

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Step 3 — Print or teach live

If you build a lesson list, print the letterbox lesson plan or continue to the interactive lesson screen to teach with drag-and-drop tiles.

Teacher tools

Phoneme Counter

Count phonemes in a word, review phoneme-grapheme and letterbox mapping, and build a lesson list when you want to teach those words. Print the plan or send it to the interactive Letterbox Lesson.

Preloaded word banks Phoneme-grapheme mapping Printable lesson plan
Open the Phoneme Counter →

Letterbox Lesson

Teach a lesson built from the Phoneme Counter using sound boxes, drag-and-drop letter tiles, and check/show-answer controls for live instruction.

Teacher-led Letter tiles + sound boxes Present mode
Open Letterbox Lesson →

Why word choice matters

Letterbox lessons work best when words map clearly sound by sound. The Phoneme Counter helps teachers choose words intentionally, check the mapping, and move from planning to explicit instruction when they are ready to teach. Explicit modeling, guided practice, and well-chosen words do the teaching; the tools just make them easier to prepare.

Keep going

Wondering which letter-sound correspondences or phonics patterns to target? Start with a quick check on the Assessments page. Lesson taught? Build practice with the same words — load them into a game, spinner, or flashcards in Build & Play — and when words become sentences and passages, the Fluency tools take over.

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