Features:

  • Hands-on learning - develop decoding, word building, and spelling skills with this hands-on literacy tool
  • COLOR-CODED FOR EASY IDENTIFICATION - Rods are color coded by phonics: vowels, consonants, silent "e", consonant blends, vowel digraphs, and word family chunks
  • Great in the classroom - use for independent or centers practice in word work, grammar, vocabulary, or writing stations
  • SUPPLEMENT SKILLS AT HOME - Great for early reading and writing practice, homework help, or for use during breaks and weekends
  • Great value - includes 142 linking cubes
Great Learning Tool

I originally ordered this for my oldest granddaughter, she's 7, but she's much too advanced for them, so my youngest granddaughter, who is 5, is using them. She enjoys making words and then sounding them out. These blocks come in several colors, green, blue, yellow, red, purple and white, and they snap together. There are several regular alphabet tiles, in which you add to word ending like "ove, ain, aze, and oy." These blocks are a great learning tool, I do wish, however, that they would have included a storage bag.

Creating Words is a "Snap"

Excellent manipulative for learning letters and words. It'll be a fun resource in a homeschool classroom or a supplement to practice skills from school. The size and colors are great for little hands and minds.

Sturdy

Love the colors and concepts.

Sturdy, colorful letter /phoneme blocks

Got these for my 5-year-old, who is just learning to read and write. I remember playing with these things in my kindergarten class. They're the same plastic stackable clocks that you remember -- they have the tab/depression on opposite sides so that they easily and securely stack together. They're loosely grouped together by colors for different phoneme clusters -- single letters are one color, -h pairs are another, -ck are a third, etc. (There's even a set of white E blocks, so that kids can visually distinguish a silent E.) I also like how there are both capital and lowercase letters on each block. My kid recognizes most lowercase letters, but a few still give him trouble, and it's a good way for him to easily remind himself what letter it is. They're also durable. They're made out of that sturdy but a little bit soft plastic stuff that would take an adult intentionally trying to break it to suffer any damage, and the printing seems like it's on there for good -- my two-year-old chomped on one of these and it didn't look any worse for wear.

Hard at first...but TERRIFIC tool in classroom

Im an ESE inclusion teacher and my 5th graders absolutely LOVED these. At first, the blocks are extremely hard to try to pull off each other but I figured I had to bend the blocks as if I’m trying to snap/break them in half and they popped off and are easily to put together and break apart

Handy Dice for Word and Sentence Development

Love to use these with my ENL (English as a New Language) students. They roll the die and try to make words and sentences with them. Very handy for many classrooms.

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