A first-grade teacher plans a multisensory intervention for a student using a
procedure called sound boxes. In this activity, the student places tokens such as
pennies into boxes drawn on a piece of paper while slowly saying the sounds in a
word. For example, for the word fan, the teacher would draw a horizontal
rectangle and divide it into three boxes, giving the student three tokens. The
student would say the word slowly (e.g., fffaaannn) and place a token into a box
as he or she says each new sound in the word. This procedure is most likely
designed to improve the student's ability to:
A. segment words into phonemes.
B. spell words that follow regular phonics patterns.
C. divide words into onsets and rimes.
D. recognize common letter-sound correspondences.
