The Small 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 they 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.

Small Letter Tiles in Box Two include:
• Common and uncommon spellings for the 5 long vowels sounds
• Spellings for the variant vowels sounds /oo/, /oo/, /ou/, /oi/, /aw/
• Less common spellings for the short vowel sounds /e/, /i/, and /u/
• Various spellings for r-controlled vowels /er/, /ar/, /or/
• Schwa tile
• Multiple spelling for the consonants /f/, /g/, /j/, /k/, /l/, /el/ /m/ /n/, /r/, /s/, and /z/
• Selected consonant and vowel suffixes
• Digraph ng and blend nk
• Sounds for suffi x ed tiles /ed/, /d/ /t/
• Blank tiles

Instructional Uses:
• Small group instruction
• One-on-one tutoring
• Learning center activities
• Instructional levels:
- Students in second half of first 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 1 1" tall, 1"–1 1" wide and magnetized
• Packaged with one 9" x 12" magnetic receptive, dry erase whiteboard
• Must be used with Small Letter Tiles – Box One; not designed to be used alone
• Small Tiles in Box Two include one tile to represent each of the multiple spellings for long, variant,
and r-controlled vowels. For example the long o compartmentcontains 7 tiles:
- 5 tiles represent the more common spellings of long o: o, oa, ow, oe, o-e, (as in go, boat,
snow, toe, and note)
- 2 tiles represent the less common spellings of long o – ough and ou (as in though and shoulder)

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