Phonological Awareness Kit - Intermediate

Ages: 8-13
Grades: 3-8

A reading breakthrough! Help your older students learn to read by combining phonological awareness instruction with phonetically-controlled reading and spelling activities.

Studies have shown a strong association between a child's ability to read and their ability to segment words into phonemes. The Phonological Awareness Kit Intermediate helps students in grade 3 through 8 who struggle to learn to read. Designed to supplement classroom reading instruction, the kit helps students improve sound awareness at the phoneme, syllable, and grapheme levels.

Target skills in:

• Sound Blending and Segmenting
• Sound Isolation and Deletion
• Consonant and Vowel Digraphs
• Diphthongs
• R-controlled Vowels
• Silent "e" Rule

The activities and manipulatives can be used with individuals, small groups, or an entire classroom.

The kit contains:

• 116-page activities manual with 50 reproducible activity pages
• 30 plastic cubes
• 50 picture and number cards
• 10 illustrated story cards
• 128 letter tiles
• 50 plastic chips
• reproducible Bingo game, generic game board, and checkerboard

The lessons/activities include:

• goals
• materials list (classroom items and items in the kit)
• directions
• word lists
• expansion activities

COMPLETE KIT INCLUDES: 128 cardboard letter tiles, 50 2½" x 3½" picture and number cards, 50 plastic chips, 30 plastic cubes, 10 8½" x 11" illustrated story cards, all in a sturdy storage box. (©1997)