Traci Sorell writes award-winning fiction and nonfiction for young people of all ages, focusing primarily on the contemporary lives of Native peoples. Her debut nonfiction picture book We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga, illustrated by Frané Lessac, won an American Indian Youth Literature Award (AIYLA) Honor, an Orbis Pictus Honor, a Sibert Honor, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. A former federal Indian law attorney and policy advocate, Traci is a 2021-22 Tulsa Artist Fellow and Cherokee Nation citizen who lives on her tribe’s reservation in northeastern Oklahoma.
Sound walls support students with learning those tricky high-frequency words. They also support students in retaining and learning to read unfamiliar words on their own. A sound wall does the work of matching our articulation of speech sounds/phonemes to the letters/graphemes that represent those sounds. Learn more about why you should make the switch from word walls to sound walls.
