Are you working on letter sounds or rhyming in your classroom? Do you have a set of the Lakeshore Teaching Tubs? If you don't, please keep reading and I will attach the object list so you can make your own. In my classroom, my students have independent work time using a work system. Last year, I put two tubs into a Sterilite container for my students to sort, but found that the students couldn't sort independently due to not knowing the object. I decided that I needed something to help the students sort the sounds so the Lakeshore Sound Mats came to be. The students are sorting the sounds onto the mat and then transferring the objects into the clear tubs. In my classroom, I have multiple levels of students so when making the mats I knew I needed to differentiate so I made mats with just two pictures as well. The exciting part about me differentiating is that it serves multiple purposes. I also made another copy and made it into a book to read and have st
an Iowa Special Education Teacher learning right along with her students