Language and Literacy Resources

3 years & up. Use these American Sign Language Alphabet Cards to familiarize children with the alphabet, beginning sounds, and the ASL manual alphabet. Each card features a letter of the alphabet and real photo on one side and a photograph of the ASL sign on the other. For a fun collaborative activity, go over the cards with your class and have everyone practice together. 26 cards included. Measures 8"L x 6"W.

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.

5 years and up. Cultivate key literacy development while having lots of fun with this Sight Word Toss game. In this game, each lily pad has a word on it. Players shout out a word from one of the lily pads and then throw their beanbag at that pad. If the bean bag lands on the pad, the player's team keeps the bean bag. Whoever has the most bean bags at the end wins!

4 years & up. Encourage your children to practice their writing and vocabulary words with these Super Bright Sentence Strips for Practicing Writing Skills and More. These sentence strips promote literacy, dexterity, fine motor skills, creativity, and imagination. Encourage children to identify the color of the sentence strip they have as they practice writing letters, numbers, vocabulary words, or simple sentences. 1.5"H ruled. Measures 24"L x 3"W.

Grade PreK - Grade 1. Teach basic concepts and promote early literacy with this hands-on approach to skill building. Encourage letter recognition by letter matching corresponding objects or words. Each set contains 10-five-piece, two-sided puzzles designed to meet key instructional goals. Utilize the included activity guide to lesson plan.

12 months & up. Add another friendly face to your dramatic play area with this soft Plush Bigmouth Pig Hand Puppets for Dramatic Play and Interactive Reading. This large, 12 inch puppets has realistic features and an easily moveable mouth. Puppets are great for promoting imagination, literacy, hand-eye coordination, creativity, fine motor skills. Encourage your children to mimic the sound pigs make. The plush material is surface washable.

3 years & up. Literacy and Math with Zoo Animals. This exciting set will provide your preschooler with plenty of entertaining educational options when learning about the 26 letters of the alphabet and numbers 0 through 10. An 8-count pack of crayons and a container of dough are also included to make learning more hands on. A safari animal puppet is also included. Activity card(s) included.

Extra styluses for Gel Writing Boards (sold separately). Gel Writing boards not included, only the writing styluses. Made in the USA.

Birth & up. Add another friendly face to your dramatic play area with this soft My First Owl Puppet for Dramatic Play and Interactive Reading. This plush puppet has realistic features and easily moveable arms. Puppets are great for promoting imagination, literacy, hand-eye coordination, creativity, fine motor skills. Encourage your children to mimic the sound owls make. The plush material is surface washable. Measures 5.5"H. Puppet features may vary from those shown.

3 years & up. Have your children follow along to this familiar story with this detailed Children's Favorite Classic Stories Little Red Hen Felt Set for Interactive Reading. This felt set follows the Little Red Hen as it teaches the importance of preparation. Encourage your children to move the felt pieces along as the story progresses. Set includes 17 flannel cut outs that can be used with any flannel board. Made in the USA.

4 years & up. Make learning the alphabet even more fun with this exciting POP for Letters™ Practicing Alphabet Recognition and Early Literacy Skills Game. This popcorn themed alphabet game promotes letter recognition, collaborative play, early literacy skills, and fine motor skills. Simply draw a letter from the popcorn box and identify the letter and sound. Be careful not to pull a piece that says "POP". You'll have to put all your pieces back! Includes 100 die-cut popcorn pieces and a box for easy storage.

Introduce a new supply into your office spaces with this durable One-Hole Hole Puncher for Crafting and Fitting Papers Into Binders. This hole punch is great for reading confetti pieces, small dots for crafts, and collecting sheets in a binder or folder. This sturdy hole puncher features easy to grip handles.

Easily practice math problems, writing skills and more with these eco-friendly pockets. Cleans easily with soft dry cloth or tissue when used with a low-odor dry erase marker. (not included). 9" x12".

Grades 1 & up. Spark brainstorming and imagination with these writing prompt cubes. Students can use cubes in both creative storytelling and nonfiction writing activities. With different writing prompts on each side (36 prompts total), foam cubes offer a variety of ideas for individual or group writing projects. Cubes wipe clean and are quiet when rolled--perfect for centers. Activity guide included. Cubes measure 1.625".

3 - 9 years. The Asia Readers include 9 readers with stories pertaining to the continent of Asia. The continent readers allow emerging readers to read independently for content as they are studying a continent: these readers introduce phonetic elements with the same progression and color-coding as the Waseca Reading Program. The 9 stories in the Asia Readers come with picture cards, text cards, and tyvek books, stored beautifully in the pockets of individual hardcover folios. Includes guide to presentation (download), masters for each Reader story (download), and Asia Readers (includes 9 booklets with 6 picture and 6 text cards for each booklet) with 10 brass icon clips and birch storage box.

3 - 9 years. The Africa Readers include 9 readers with stories pertaining to the continent of Africa. The continent readers allow emerging readers to read independently for content as they are studying a continent: these readers introduce phonetic elements with the same progression and color-coding as our Waseca Reading Program. The 9 stories in the Africa Readers come with picture cards, text cards, and tyvek books, stored beautifully in the pockets of individual hardcover folios. Includes guide to presentation (download), masters for each Reader story (download), and African Readers (includes 9 booklets with 6 picture and 6 text cards for each booklet) with 10 brass icon clips and birch storage box.

3 - 9 years. The Antarctica Readers include 9 readers with stories pertaining to the continent of Antarctica. The continent readers allow emerging readers to read independently for content as they are studying a continent: these readers introduce phonetic elements with the same progression and color-coding the Waseca Reading Program. The 9 stories in the Antarctica Readers come with picture cards, text cards, and tyvek books, stored beautifully in the pockets of individual hardcover folios. Includes guide to presentation (download), masters for Reader story (download), Antarctica Readers (includes 9 booklets with 6 picture and 6 text cards for each booklet) with 10 brass icon clips and birch storage box.

3 - 9 years. The South America Readers include 9 readers with stories pertaining to the continent of South America. The continent readers allow emerging readers to read independently for content as they are studying a continent: these readers introduce phonetic elements with the same progression and color-coding as the Waseca Reading Program. The 9 stories in the South America Readers come with picture cards, text cards, and tyvek books, stored beautifully in the pockets of individual hardcover folios. Includes guide to presentation (download), and masters for each Reader story (download), South America Readers (includes 9 booklets with 6 picture and 6 text cards for each booklet) with 10 brass icon clips and birch storage box.

3 years & up. Encourage role play and add realism to doll house activities. Promotes cognitive, motor, and social development while fostering meaningful connections between children, parents, grandparents, and older siblings. Helps with communication skills as children describe their creations and listen to family member's ideas. This multi-generational Caucasian family of 8 is made of solid vinyl, with realistic detailing. Each figure is free standing, with the tallest measuring 5"H.

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.

Birth & up. These plush little friends with soft fabrics and embroidered faces are sized perfectly for infants and toddlers! This set includes a Frog, Duck, Mouse and Owl hand puppet. Each puppet is approximately 5.5"L. Machine washable. Puppet features may vary from those shown.

3 - 9 years. The North America Readers include 9 readers with stories pertaining to the continent of North America. The continent readers allow emerging readers to read independently for content as they are studying a continent: these readers introduce phonetic elements with the same progression and color-coding as the Waseca Reading Program. The 9 stories in the North America Readers come with picture cards, text cards, and tyvek books, stored beautifully in the pockets of individual hardcover folios. Includes guide to presentation (download), masters for each Readers story (dowload), and North America Readers (Includes 9 booklets with 6 picture and 6 text cards for each booklet) with 10 brass icon clips and birch storage box.

12 months & up. Add another friendly face to your dramatic play area with this soft Plush Bigmouth Horse Hand Puppets for Dramatic Play and Interactive Reading. This large, 12 inch puppets has realistic features and an easily moveable mouth. Puppets are great for promoting imagination, literacy, hand-eye coordination, creativity, fine motor skills. Encourage your children to mimic the sound horses make. The plush material is surface washable.

Grade PreK. This workbook has 300 skill-building pages that give young learners practice with the alphabet, sight words, handwriting, counting, numbers, shapes and everything they'll need to succeed as students. Includes: free stickers and certificate of achievement, instant assessment test to check progress, and a free web link to great learning games. This workbook is teacher approved to support classroom learning. 320 pages.