Use a success-oriented program to build requisite reading skills in rhyming, segmenting, and sound placement and blending.

Ages: 5-8
Grades: K-3

This well-established program links phonological awareness instruction with phonetically-controlled reading and spelling activities to build success and carryover. The activities and manipulatives can be used with individuals, small groups, or an entire classroom.

The kit contains:

• 115-page activities manual with goal-directed exercises at word, syllable, phoneme, and grapheme levels (50 reproducible phoneme segmenting activity pages)
• 60 plastic cubes
• 76 picture cards
• 5 number cards
• family letter
• home activities
• 50 plastic chips

The activities are arranged in this developmental hierarchy:

• Rhyming—recognition, discrimination, and production of rhyming words
• Word Level—sentence segmentation and compound word segmentation, blending, isolation, and deletion
• Syllable Level—segmentation, blending, isolation, and deletion
• Phoneme Level—isolation, segmentation, blending, deletion, and substitution
• Grapheme Level—blending and substituting, substituting and decoding, and decoding and encoding

COMPLETE KIT INCLUDES: 115-page manual, 60 plastic cubes, 81 4½" x 5½" picture and number cards, 50 plastic chips, all in a sturdy storage box. (©1995)