Language and Literacy Resources

With this colorful Beginners Counting Felt Set children can count with ladybugs, pandas, puppies, kitten, frogs, and more! This set promotes important early math skills and helps children gain confidence in their counting. This exciting counting set makes learning more interactive and fun for children. Watch as they become familiar with numbers and concepts. The set includes 132 pre-cut pieces including 2 sets of numbers from 0-10 and equations. Made in the USA.

3 years & up. Real images reinforce healthy eating habits and align with the USDA MyPlate model. This learning kit is great for at home learning or in school instruction. Being that the pieces are all made of felt, the kit also travels well. Includes 1 felt plate with placemat, 50 food pieces, 5 food group pieces, and a 16 page lesson guide. Precut. Placemat measures 12"L x 14"W.

4 years & up. These giant, sturdy easy write-on/wipe-off cardstock letters are perfect for early handwriting and reinforcing letter recognition. Enhances Fine Motor Skills, Language, and Literacy Skills. The letters have lightly colored lines and numbered arrows to show a child where to begin and end. Letters are multicolored and are perfect for learning at home or school. Letters measure 8.5"H. Includes 26 letters.

4 - 6 years. Sandpaper Letters are an excellent resource for tactile learners, as well as reinforcing fine motor skills for younger learners. Helps develop letter recognition and early literacy skills. It is a useful resource for home or classroom learning activities, and helps students with special needs by providing sensory input to their literacy skills. Includes 26 uppercase letter cards and 28 lowercase letter cards.

PreK - Grade 2. A step-by-step, book-by-book program that guides children through the early stages of reading. Each book, carefully evaluated by a reading specialist to correlate with the Guided Reading Levels, is leveled to address the early stages of a child's reading development. Inside each box set you'll find 75 eight-page storybooks (5 copies of 15 titles) on topics children love, which makes them perfect for group learning. Also includes a 4-page mini-teaching guide and storage box.

3 years & up. Children will enjoy helping these adorable kittens find their mittens as they learn about taking care of their belongings. The background scene is designed to fit into the Cardboard File Case. Set includes 15 felt figures to cut out including mother cat, 3 kittens, 3 sets of clean mittens, 3 sets of dirty mittens, 3 crying kitten faces, washtub, and cherry pie. The unmounted background scene measures 12" x 17". Text of this traditional story is also included. Felt board is sold separately.

3 years & up. The Beginning Word Builder is a great group activity for practicing spelling, reading, and identifying words. The Beginning Word Builder is designed to grow with children as their literacy skills develop and encourages critical thinking skills to investigate vowel-consonant (VC), consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC), and consonant-vowel (CV) words. Word and picture cards attach to the top of the word builder for easy access to prompts. Includes 1 Word Builder, 8 Lowercase Letter Rings,… More »

3 years & up. This Baby Turtle hand puppet is bright green, plush, plump, and huggable. He has movable feet and mouth, and can also hide inside his shell. Measures 10"L x 7"W x 3"Tall.

4 years & up. Have a blast reinforcing phonological awareness! Place a photo card in the rocket doorway, and then sort cards that rhyme into the correct rocket. Sort by beginning and ending sounds, syllables and more. Includes 8 rockets, 80 real-life photo cards, and activity guide. Rockets measure 5"H x 2.25" in diameter.

3 years & up. Teaching emotional literacy helps children develop social skills by recognizing and responding to social cues appropriately. Children can interpret their own emotions by matching "feeling" words with pictures. Actual photographs printed on felt. 12 pictures, 12 feeling words, 6 page lesson guide. Average figure 6" tall.

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 2.5"H.

4 years & up. Match and learn with this fun twist on classic domino games! Children will strengthen literacy and math skills and will also learn to identify different emotions with this set of dominoes. Perfect for classroom activities or for family engagement. Set includes 3 game tins: Emotions Dominoes Game, Rhyming Words Dominoes, and Ten Frame Dominoes Game. Each game tin includes 28 dominoes.

3 years & up. This Baby Black Bear hand puppet features soft fur, a sweet face, and movable head and arms. Measures 5"L x 6"W x 9"Tall.

2 years & 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. Native to Mexico this little water monster is a curious animal. Storytell or create an environment for this animal using this plush. Measures 8.5"L x 4"W x 3"H.

3 years & up. Retell your favorite Eric Carle story, Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear with this exciting Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear Interactive Reading Felt Set. This felt set features the characters of the beloved story. Use these soft, felt pieces for interactive reading time. Encourage your children to point to the characters or move the piece when they appear in the story. Set of 11.

3 years & up. The perfect visual compliment to the classic story, The Littlest Engine That Could. You won't be able to resist this determined little engine as it tries to overcome the challenges that arise! Have fun playing out the original story and making up your own again and again. Set includes 16 felt figures to cut out, and an unmounted background scene which measures 12" x 17". Felt board is sold separately.

2 years & up. A playful way to practice fine motor skills and letter learning. Eco-friendly rubberwood animal shapes for each letter of the alphabet fit together to form one long puzzle, or can be used as open-ended block play pieces. Pieces range from approximately 1 1/2" to 3 1/2". Comes with a wooden tray for easy clean-up, storage and display. Includes 26 pieces.

2 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 »

3 years & up. Bring Froggy's adventures to life with this engaging set and book "Froggy Gets Dressed". Encourage children to move the pieces of the felt set as the story is read. Felt figures are pre cut.

4 years & up. Contains 71 stamps in uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation marks, and a 4-color stamp pad. Activity pad also included. Features: deluxe wooden letter and number stamp set with 25 stamp-and-learn activity book; includes 71 wooden-handled upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuation stamps, four-color washable ink stamp pad, great for creating personalized cards, art projects, book covers, and more; encourages fine motor skills, language… More »

3 years & up. Introduce your children to more sight words with this descriptive Step 2 Sight Word Book Set for Early Literacy and Vocabulary Skills. Sight words are necessary for early literacy development as they help children read more fluently and write with more efficiency. With this set, children will add eight new words to their repertoire, and review previously taught words. Set of 8 books.

3 years & up. Come and explore with bears, birds, and their friends with this exciting, versatile set. Children can improve their fine motor skills through pushing and pulling the felt items on and off the board. Set includes 60 precut pieces for storytelling, color recognition, counting, patterning, sorting, and more. Set also includes eight-page lesson guide.