Learning Resources Reading Rods - Text Sticks Alphabet Set for Recognizing English Phonemes, Learning to Read, Word Forming Activities, Letter Building Blocks, KVK Words (Consonant Vowel Consonant)

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When it comes to practicing spelling words with my kindergartener it was hard to keep her attention. These little blocks did the trick! They helped keep her engaged and made spelling fun. Searching for the letters to connect to make her spelling words turned studying into a game.

🧒. Son realmente geniales para aprender palabras básicas y ortografía. 👏Los usamos en casa 🏡 como parte de nuestras actividades de aprendizaje. Mi hijo se divierte mucho formando palabras con estos juguetes. 🔠 Los prefijos y sufijos son fáciles de entender y aclaran el proceso de lectura. 🤓Me encanta por que son interactivos y prácticos, lo que ayuda a mi hijo a seguir aprendiendo. 🎉💪

This is more of a teaching resource than something for a child to ‘play’ with, or work through on their own. It is in some ways equivalent to a visual aid, but – more than that – it is a practical hands-on tool on which a child can see how words are formed, and themselves form words.Their own name is likely to come first, followed by some of the simple words that are illustrated on the light blue and pink cubes – dog, cat, ant, etc.After they get going, and for a keen learner to do some voluntary ‘revision’ practice, they can work on their own, but most tasks will need a teacher to at least introduce a concept. That means individual teaching or, at most, small group work. Good for home learning – not at all good if there are more than three children using a single box of reading rods at the same time.The enclosed leaflet should definitely be read right through by the prospective teacher. Besides explaining how the various colour codes are to be interpreted (e.g. pink pictures represent words beginning with a vowel; blue ones a consonant), it offers many good ideas for demonstrating how words work.Some ideas in the leaflet come as a surprise – or did to me. The concept of rhymes is introduced (cat, mat, bat, etc.), as is counting the number of syllables in a single word (up to three in the examples – volcano, violin, …).Through use of these rods, perhaps a new generation of poets will emerge (and rhymed verse with a strict metre will come back into fashion)!Well, perhaps not, but at least the children’s reading is likely to develop alongside almost without specifically paying attention to that.The cubes are nicely made and presented in a stout box that – with reasonable care – should well outlast any one child’s period of need for exercises at this level.‘Yes’ to 3+ for building their own name from its elements – but mainly 5-6 plus for seriously beginning to read.

My kids love lining up their ABC’s!