The Large Letter Tiles in Box One are great for instructing students in kindergarten and fi rst grade who are beginning to read and for teaching struggling readers of any age. The Large Letter Tiles are designed for whole class or large group instruction. Kindergarten teachers use the Large Letter Tiles to teach capital letters, matching upper and lower case letters, and alphabetization. The red vowel tiles help students learn their vowels and that every word and syllable must have a vowel. First grade teachers and those working with struggling readers use the tiles to show spellings for words with short vowels, digraphs, trigraphs, blends, inflectional suffixes, and silent e.

Large Letter Tile Box One includes the following tiles:
• 1 each of upper case letters
• 2 each of red vowels a, e, i, o, u
• 2–5 each of lower case letters
• 2 each of digraphs ch, sh, th, wh, ck, ph, ng
• 2 each of trigraphs tch, dge
• 1 each of suffixes s, es, ed, er, est, ing
• 1 each of spelling pattern am, an
• 5 each of red hearts

Instructional Uses:
• Classroom or large group instruction (easily seen by 10–100 people in a room)
• Professional development presentations
• Instructional purposes:
- Beginning readers in kindergarten and first grade
- Intervention lessons for struggling readers of any age

Features:
• Tiles are 2½" square and magnetized
• Labeled dividers make it easy to find tiles needed for instruction.
• Large Letter Tile cases are easily transported and stored
• Arrive organized in a plastic carrying case, assembled and ready to use

The Large Letter Tiles in Box Two help students understand complex vowel spellings, suffixes, and unusual consonant spellings. These tiles are especially useful when students competently read and spell words with common short vowel patterns and are learning to read words with silent e, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, suffixes, and more complex consonant spellings. The tiles in Box Two must be used with Box One and are not to be used without Box One.

Large Letter Tile Box Two includes:
• Common and less common spellings for the 5 long vowels sounds
• Spellings for the variant vowels sounds /oo/, /oo/, /ou/, /oi/, /aw/
• Various spellings for r-controlled vowels /er/, /ar/, /or/
• Multiple spellings for the consonants /f/, /g/, /j/, /k/, /m/, /n/, and /r/,
• Selected prefixes, consonant suffixes, and vowel suffixes
• Word families ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk
• Blank tiles, schwa, and spellings of /le/ and /el/
• Sounds of suffi x ending ed /ed/ /d/ /t/
• Tiles for spelling words ending in ff, ss, ll
• –le spellings ble, cle, dle, fl e, gle, kle, ple, stle, tle, zle.

Instructional Uses:
• Classroom or large group instruction (easily seen by 10–100 people in a room)
• Professional development presentations
• Instructional purposes:
- Students in second half of fi rst grade and subsequent grades for phonics or word study
- Struggling readers of any age who are learning to read and spell words with long vowels,
variant vowels, r-controlled vowels, prefixes, and suffixes

Features:
• Tiles are 21/2” square and magnetized
• Must be used with Large Letter Tiles Box One; not designed to be used alone.
• Labeled dividers make it easy to fi nd tiles needed for instruction
• Large Letter Tile cases are easily transported and stored
• Arrive organized in a plastic carrying case, assembled and ready to use

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