Phonics and Reading Skills Toys
Beginner Reading Program - Sample Set
Start beginning readers off right with this easy-to-use, practice-packed program. Ideal for use with students who:
- Are developing the ability to decode monosyllabic words with short or long vowels
- Are ready to read words in story format
- Need beginning sight word practice
- Are older and still need practice
With this super-value set you'll have:
- 10 student readers. Each book features a different vowel sound and direct picture/text correspondence. The whimsical, full-color illustrations are sure to appeal to any beginning reader regardless of age.
- 48-page reproducible activity book filled with beginning comprehension practice, short/long vowel stories, sight word activities, sentences for dictation, extended word lists, teacher guide, and answer key.
- 96 beginning sight word flash cards
Ages 4 and up.
Made in America.
Beginner Reading Program - Small Group Set
Start beginning readers off right with this easy-to-use, practice-packed program. Ideal for use with students who:
- Are developing the ability to decode monosyllabic words with short or long vowels
- Are ready to read words in story format
- Need beginning sight word practice
- Are older and still need practice
- 3 copies each of 10 student readers featuring a different vowel sound and direct picture/text correspondence. The whimsical, full-color illustrations are sure to appeal to any beginning reader regardless of age.
- 48-page reproducible activity book filled with beginning comprehension practice, short/long vowel stories, sight word activities, sentences for dictation, extended word lists, teacher guide, and answer key.
- 96 beginning sight word flash cards
Blends Workbook
Take phonics up a notch!
This creatively illustrated book brings an understanding of blends home to children who are just beginning to learn to read. Image association is used to help children create words using blends. Tracing words further emphasizes the lessons. Coloring exercises using images that represent blend words offer children an artistic outlet.
In all, there are 32 different blend activities. Phonemic awareness is an essential component to reading success and this book gives students plenty of practice.
Grades K-1
Context Clues - Grades 2-3
High-Interest Topics Boost Comprehension
Improve a child's reading and comprehension skills.
Using a variety of teaching tools, each of the 24 lessons found in this book highlights four to six words. After using the words to complete a short paragraph on subjects ranging from "earthworms" to "fingerprints," students are challenged with a second task. Following directions, they complete crossword puzzles, practice telling time, connect-the-dots, tackle word searches, and much more.
Grades 2-3
Context Clues - Grades 3-4
High-Interest Topics Boost Comprehension
Improve a child's reading and comprehension skills.
Using a variety of teaching tools, each of the 24 lesson found in this book highlights five to six words. After using the words to complete a short paragraph on subjects ranging from "how a ship model gets into a bottle" to "why spinning makes you dizzy," students are challenged with a second task. Following directions, they wander through mazes, complete crosswords, specifically color illustrations, identify states on a U.S. map, and much more.
Grades 3-4
Extra Early Learning Tiles Trays
Extra Early Learning Tiles Trays - Set of 4. For use with any of the Early Learning Tiles products.
High-Interest Reading - Cool Jobs
This action-packed book is sure to capture and hold student interest while building essential reading skills. Each intriguing story is followed by step-by-step activities that improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and more! The truly high-interest topics and low reading levels make this book ideal for reluctant readers, those reading below grade level, and teachers who simply want to spice up their reading curriculum.
Grades 3 - Adult
High-Interest Reading - Fascinating Creatures
This action-packed book is sure to capture and hold student interest while building essential reading skills. Each intriguing story is followed by step-by-step activities that improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and more! The truly high-interest topics and low reading levels make this book ideal for reluctant readers, those reading below grade level, and teachers who simply want to spice up their reading curriculum.
Grades 3 - Adult
High-Interest Reading - Great Inventions
This action-packed book is sure to capture and hold student interest while building essential reading skills. Each intriguing story is followed by step-by-step activities that improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and more! The truly high-interest topics and low reading levels make this book ideal for reluctant readers, those reading below grade level, and teachers who simply want to spice up their reading curriculum.
Grades 3 - Adult
High-Interest Reading - Hot Sports
This action-packed book is sure to capture and hold student interest while building essential reading skills. Each intriguing story is followed by step-by-step activities that improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and more! The truly high-interest topics and low reading levels make this book ideal for reluctant readers, those reading below grade level, and teachers who simply want to spice up their reading curriculum.
Grades 3 - Adult
Hot Dots Phonics Flash Cards - Set 4 Blends and Digraphs
Now there's an exciting new sequential phonics program that combines the fun and excitement of Hot Dots flashing lights and fun sounds with a comprehensive readiness and phonics program. Each set of self-checking Hot Dots flash cards reinforces skills essential for reading success. After mastering the skills in the first three sets, children will be able to decode, or sound out, hundreds of 3- and 4-letter words. As they progress through the program, they acquire new decoding skills, so they're reading in no time!
With the Hot Dots Power Pen (sold separately) in hand, phonics practice becomes an exciting game children can play on their own or with adult guidance. The Hot Dots pen gives immediate feedback for correct answer choices with flashing lights and one of seven positive sounds - or one of two gentle incorrect answer sounds for wrong choices. Each set includes 72 learning activities on 36 full-color double-sided cards. Packaged in sturdy plastic storage cases, these are the perfect send-home helpers for children needing extra practice. All cards can also be used without the Power Pen as traditional flash cards.
Set 4 Blends and Digraphs
Read words and phrases with beginning and ending r-, l-, and s- blends and digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh).
Hot Dots Phonics Flash Cards - Set 6 Variant Vowels
Now there's an exciting new sequential phonics program that combines the fun and excitement of Hot Dots flashing lights and fun sounds with a comprehensive readiness and phonics program. Each set of self-checking Hot Dots flash cards reinforces skills essential for reading success. After mastering the skills in the first three sets, children will be able to decode, or sound out, hundreds of 3- and 4-letter words. As they progress through the program, they acquire new decoding skills, so they're reading in no time!
With the Hot Dots Power Pen (sold separately) in hand, phonics practice becomes an exciting game children can play on their own or with adult guidance. The Hot Dots pen gives immediate feedback for correct answer choices with flashing lights and one of seven positive sounds - or one of two gentle incorrect answer sounds for wrong choices. Each set includes 72 learning activities on 36 full-color double-sided cards. Packaged in sturdy plastic storage cases, these are the perfect send-home helpers for children needing extra practice. All cards can also be used without the Power Pen as traditional flash cards.
Set 6 Variant Vowels & More
Identify r-controlled vowels, (ar, er, ir, or, ur), vowel digraphs (tooth, crawl), and vowel diphthongs (join, around). Also silent letters, and words ending in -le and
Labeling for Comprehension - Reading Level 4
Students read short, interesting descriptions of various objects, such as a camera or a flower, then demonstrate their understanding by labeling the accompanying diagram according to the description. An excellent way to build general knowledge, test comprehension, and teach an aspect of analysis -- the relationship of parts to the whole, and of the whole to its parts.
Grades 5-12
Labeling for Comprehension - Reading Level 5
Students read short, interesting descriptions of various objects, such as a camera or a flower, then demonstrate their understanding by labeling the accompanying diagram according to the description. An excellent way to build general knowledge, test comprehension, and teach an aspect of analysis -- the relationship of parts to the whole, and of the whole to its parts.
Grades 5-12
More Reading Activity Books - Beginning Consonants - Grade K-1
Strengthen Phonemic Awareness!
Learning how a word ends is one more step toward successful reading. Utilizing drawings of everything from a craB to a mailboX, this book calls on images of familiar things to teach word closure.
This creatively illustrated book is filled with 20 pages of exercises specifically designed to teach ending consonants. Writing each consonant is also encouraged. A "Review" section at the back of the book provides a useful lesson summary.
Overall, this book is an outstanding way for children to practice ending consonant sounds, letter recognition, and word association.
Grades: K-1
More Reading Activity Books - Beginning Sight Words
Master 54 Essential Sight Words!
Learning words by sight takes practice, practice, practice. This book provides children a fun way to do just that.
Working from the standard Dolch List this book emphasizes 54 popular sight words - from mother to read and oodles of everyday words in between. All totaled, there are 29 different sight word activities in this book, including exercises to finish writing words, to unscramble words from blocks of letters and even completing sentences.
Grades: 1-2
More Reading Activity Books - Ending Consonants - Grade K-1
Strengthen Phonemic Awareness!
This fancifully illustrated book is filled with 25 pages of exercises designed to teach beginning consonants. What better way to start learning their B, C, D's than with images of familiar things.
From drawings of a Bumblebee, a Cake, and a Door, to a Web, an Egg Yoke, and a Zebra, the highly visual lessons in this book help children put consonant sounds together with words and images. Writing each consonant is also encouraged. A "Review" section at the back of the book provides a useful lesson summary.
All in all, this book is a great way for children to practice beginning consonant sounds, letter recognition, and word association - all skills needed for reading success.
Grades: K-1
More Reading Activity Books - Primary Cloze Reading - Grade 2
Building early comprehension skills!
Use context clues to finish short stories
Presented with context clues and a word list, students are challenged to complete brief stories.
Example:
Cleared - Good – The - Cooked... "Mrs. Rodrigues ___ dinner. Her family enjoyed the ___ food. Jose ___ the table. Juanita washed ___ dishes. Who cleared the table?"
Each of the 43 exercises found in this book features four words and a delightful illustration of the story. Reading and writing skills are enhanced while students get plenty of practice with comprehension, spelling, and thinking. Coloring the accompanying picture is a fun way to hone fine motor skills.
Grade 2
More Reading Activity Books - Sentence Comprehension
Reading Made Fun!
Great Hands-On Activities for Visual Learners
This book is packed with 20 fully-illustrated, easy-to-read, comprehension activities for the beginning reader.
Students are first challenged to match three sentences with three images: "The tree lost its leaves." "I like to fly a kite." "Herb is brushing his teeth." To practice writing, spelling, and penmanship, pupils are then asked to create their own sentence to describe a fourth image.
Coloring all the drawings adds a creative flair to each exercise.
Grades: K-1
More Reading Activity Books - Vowels - Grade K-1
Strengthen Phonemic Awareness!
This book makes introducing children to vocabulary's A, E, I, O, U's a snap.
Designed specifically for learning the basic beginning skills of vowel sounds, this starter book features 28 pages of fancifully illustrated activities. Visual word games and vowel tracing will instill the familiarity needed to encourage reading success.
Grades: K-1
More Reading Activity Books - Webbing
A Terrific Resource for Teaching Science
Promote a child's thinking skills with the 22 dictionary and writing activities in this book.
Each exercise spotlights an associated group of words
Read, Write, and Color - Comprehension - Grade 1
Strengthen Key Reading
"Jed likes to jog." "Curt likes to climb." Two drawings are featured. Which sentence goes with which picture?
This is but one of the 24 lessons featured in this creatively illustrated book. What an effective tool for boosting reading comprehension, writing, spelling, and penmanship. After copying the correct statement under the appropriate image, young readers have the pleasure of coloring the two imaginative drawings.
Grade: 1
The Five W's - Reading Level 2 - Audio CD
The popular Five W's activity book is now even better with a new companion audio CD!
Professionally recorded - complete with sound effects and mood music - this CD brings the factual newspaper articles to life. The audio tracks follow each story's text word-for-word - including follow-up comprehension questions - making them ideal for auditory learners, struggling readers, and those with limited English skills.
Grades 4+
