This article is missing information about a description of the original work by D. B. Elkonin (or was the term coined in English, i.e. only named after Elkonin, not developed by Elkonin?), how this system was introduced to English-speaking countries, and a detailed description of the design and use in English-speaking countries (These boxes are not used in Russian schools!), and their adaptation to the English spelling system, which is very different from Russian. Please expand the article to include this information. Further details may exist on the
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Elkonin boxes are an instructional method used in the early elementary grades especially in children with reading difficulties and inadequate responders in order to build
phonemic awareness by segmenting words into individual sounds.[1][2] They are named after
D.B. Elkonin, the Russian psychologist who pioneered their use.[3] The "boxes" are squares drawn on a piece of paper or a chalkboard, with one box for each sound or
phoneme.[3] To use Elkonin boxes, a child listens to a
word and moves a token into a box for each sound or phoneme. In some cases different colored tokens may be used for
consonants and
vowels or just for each phoneme in the word.[4]
^Bodrova, Elena; Leong, Deborah J. (2007).
Tools of the mind(PDF) (Second ed.). Upper Saddle River (N.J.): Pearson.
ISBN978-0130278043. Archived from
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Bibliography
Bodrova, Elena; Leong, Deborah J. (2007).
Tools of the mind(PDF) (Second ed.). Upper Saddle River (N.J.): Pearson.
ISBN978-0130278043. Archived from
the original(PDF) on 2017-05-20. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
"Elkonin Boxes". Reading Rockets. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2017.