Early Literacy

This set includes everything pre-readers need to practice language and literacy skills! Five flash card sets teach alphabet, phonics, picture words, rhyming, and sight words.

Grade PreK - Grade 1. Teach basic concepts and promote early literacy with this hands-on approach to skill building. Each set contains 10-five piece, two-sided puzzles designed to meet key instructional goals. Includes activity guide. Research based!

4 years & up. Build your literacy skills with Rhyming & First Words Dominoes by Junior Learning. Learn rhyming words and simple vocabulary by matching them to the correct corresponding images. Win the games by getting rid of all of your dominoes first! Each tin includes 28 dominoes. Purchase as a set or individually.

4 years & up. Engaging pictures and beginning words entice early readers to make the connection between letters and words. Build 16 words with short vowel sounds by assembling colorful puzzles. Challenge growing skills by flipping over the pieces to build the words without pictures. Includes 48 puzzle pieces and activity guide.

PreK & Up. These clever pebbles are an ideal tool for building interest in letters and sounds in a wide variety of contexts. Appeal to children's natural instinct to explore, investigate, sort and collect. Looking and feeling like real rocks, these pebbles are great for learning in the sand, in the water and outdoors. Ideal for early word building. Each set includes a storage container and teacher's guide. Set of 26 pebbles. Pebbles are approximately 1.5" in size.

3 years & up. Learn letters and vocabulary with acorns! Match uppercase and lowercase letters and match color-coded figures to their appropriate beginning letter. Includes 26 two-piece acorns and 26 color-coded figures—1 for each letter! Acorns measure 2"L x 2 1/2"H.

PreK & Up. These clever pebbles are an ideal tool for building interest in letters and sounds in a wide variety of contexts. Appeal to children's natural instinct to explore, investigate, sort and collect. Ideal for early word building. Each set includes a storage container and teacher's guide. Set of 26 pebbles. Pebbles are approximately 1 1/2" in size.

3 years & up. These tactile stones offer an engaging, multi-sensory way for young children to practice correct letter formation. Each stone is carefully engraved to provide important sensory feedback. Starting at the green dot children will enjoy tracing each letter shape with their finger - over and over again - building important motor-memory skills. The set contains 26 letter stones, 3 1/2 - 6 inches long, and an activity guide.

3 years & up. Build key foundations for letter formation with these natural looking stones, each one with a different pattern. As kids trace over the patterns from left to right, learning how to make shapes, the stones provide the sensory feedback needed to take the first steps in writing. Develops fine motor skills and the language necessary to talk about shapes and patterns. Also use them to make impressions in clay or dough, or use with sand, rice, and paint as part of a sensory tray. The… More »

Multi-touch literacy explorations promote collaborative learning and development of letter recognition and pre-writing skills. Each exploration compliments a hands-on learning tool for early learners.This software will reinforce letter recognition of both upper and lowercase letters. Available in both tablet and large-screen formats. After purchase, an access code will be sent via email; the software can then be downloaded directly onto the device.

Learning to form lowercase letters consistently and accurately is an important step to developing fluent handwriting. This absorbing and innovative app/software is a fantastic way to help children develop these skills. Choose a letter, hear its sound, watch a helpful creature draw it in the sand, and hear the letter name. Now try to draw the letters in its tracks, watching your trail form as you do so. Choose a new letter or select the tide to come in and sweep away your attempt and try again. Teacher… More »

3 years & up. Pre-writing activities help young children, as well as older children with special needs, to build fine motor skills, and the language to talk about shapes and patterns. This app/software helps develop and consolidate such skills and supports the early development of good letter formation. Select a pebble from the array and watch its pattern created by the fish in the rock pool. Trace the track of the bubbles with your finger, watching your pattern appear. Choose the same or a… More »

These highlight reading strips help children focus on one sentence at a time. Includes 30 strips in three colors; magenta, neon yellow and electric blue. Great for children with learning disabilities. 9"L x 3 1/2"W x 1"H.

Grades PreK - 5. The TAG You're It! kits allow schools to easily keep parents engaged in their child's literacy development all year long. Throughout the year, teachers choose a fiction or informational text TAG You're It! card to send home to parents that correlates with classroom instruction. Families then incorporate the parent-friendly literacy strategy described on the TAG card into nightly reading practice at home. Components include: TAG You're It! Program CD Kick-Off Video, Classroom Set… More »