Our plastic Colored Tiles are perfect for teaching phonemic awareness.  They help students to focus on the sounds in orally spoken words without having to relate the sounds to letters, which is the first step in teaching phonemic awareness.  Many new and struggling readers have difficulty developing phonemic awareness.  Struggling readers, especially, tend to rely on the letter, rather than the spoken word, to identify the sound.  The Colored Tiles allow students to see and touch a symbol for sounds.  Once a student can easily manipulate sounds without letters, that student is ready to associate sounds with letters and learn to read.  Struggling readers can use the Colored Tiles to first identify the sounds, and then use the Small Letter Tiles to can match the sounds with a letter. This technique explicitly shows how letters and sounds relate.

Set includes a total of 25 plastic tiles with 5 tiles of each color: red, yellow, blue, green, and purple.

Instructional Uses:
• Phonemic awareness activities and initial phonics lessons
• Small group instruction, one-on-one tutoring, and classroom instruction
• Instructional levels
- Beginning readers in Kindergarten and First Grade
- Intervention lessons for struggling readers of any age

Features:
• Colored Tiles are 1¼"  tall by 1" wide (the same size as Small Letter Tiles & Capital Letter Tiles)
• Colored Tiles are not magnetized

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