Happy 4th of July friends!!! Today's post will focus on: Letter and Sound Sorts Why sort use letter and sound sorts? Initial sound sorting is the very first step of phonemic awareness. It's goal is to help students learn phoneme isolation, identification, and categorization. Students are taught to state whole words and then isolate the beginning consonant sound and then match it to other words that have a matching sound. What are the first steps? Model, Model, Model for the students…