Early Literacy

Grade PreK - Grade 1. Teach basic concepts and promote early literacy with this hands-on approach to skill building. Each set contains 10-five piece, two-sided puzzles designed to meet key instructional goals. Includes activity guide. Research based!

3 years & up. Develop phonemic awareness and vocabulary with this set of 16 visually appealing rhyming pebbles. The colorful illustrations provide children with a fun way to learn sounds and phonics. Durable stones provide a fantastic tactile way for children to learn as they sort and match eight rhyming pairs. Pairs address the following sound families, -ag, -an, -ap, -at, -ing, -og, -ot and -ug. Stones measure 2".

4 years & up. Extend literacy skills with 13 double-sided boards with familiar illustrations and 52 colorful uppercase and lowercase letters for matching. Sturdy wooden construction. Encourages letter, word, and color recognition while promoting matching, memory, and fine motor skills.

4 years & up. Reel in the fun with this alphabet fishing game. Magnetic poles allow children to fish for 30 sea creatures, then match the lower case letters on the creatures to the letters on their game boards. Includes play for 1-4 players: 30 sea creatures, 4 game boards, 4 fishing poles, pop-up sea card, parent guide, Spanish & French letters sticker sheet.

3 years & up. Creative play and storytelling all rolled into a beautiful set of wooden toys. Children will enjoy hours of open-ended, interactive play while learning about the popular fairy tale characters in this Happy Architect set. Includes 44 total pieces: 12 plywood pieces (largest approximately 10" and smallest 8") and 32 wooden character pieces printed front and back. Children can use the interactive design of the houses, huts, bridges, and castle to pretend and play and bring… More »

2 years & up. Build key foundations for letter formation with these natural looking stones, each one with a different pattern. As kids trace over the patterns from left to right, learning how to make shapes, the stones provide the sensory feedback needed to take the first steps in writing. Develops fine motor skills and the language necessary to talk about shapes and patterns. Also use them to make impressions in clay or dough, or use with sand, rice, and paint as part of a sensory tray. The… More »

2 years & up. These clever pebbles are an ideal tool for building interest in letters and sounds in a wide variety of contexts. Appeal to children's natural instinct to explore, investigate, sort and collect. Looking and feeling like real rocks, these pebbles are great for learning in the sand, in the water and outdoors. Ideal for early word building. Each set includes a storage container and teacher's guide. Set of 26 pebbles. Pebbles are approximately 1.5" in size.

Children decide everyday to pretend to have a tea party, be a firefighter, open a pet store - all of these are opportunities to increase pre-reading skills. Literacy Play is packed with over 185 dramatic play activities that teach important pre-reading skills while bringing children's imaginations to life. Paperback 320 pages.

2 years & up. These clever pebbles are an ideal tool for building interest in letters and sounds in a wide variety of contexts. Appeal to children's natural instinct to explore, investigate, sort and collect. Ideal for early word building. Each set includes a storage container and teacher's guide. Set of 26 pebbles. Pebbles are approximately 1.5" in size.

Early introduction to learning just got more fun with this flashcard deck that grows with the child! Beginning with letter recognition to color-coded vowels for more advanced learning, these flashcards follows children on their own spelling journey. Cards are made of durable material for long time use. Set includes uppercase and lowercase letters with 26 cards in each. Letters are of the English alphabet.

4 years & up. Contains 71 stamps in uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation marks, and a 4-color stamp pad. Activity pad also included. Features: deluxe wooden letter and number stamp set with 25 stamp-and-learn activity book; includes 71 wooden-handled upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuation stamps, four-color washable ink stamp pad, great for creating personalized cards, art projects, book covers, and more; encourages fine motor skills, language… More »

3 years and up. Wikki Stix® Learning Toys are the original - trusted by families, schools, and teachers everywhere. Wikki Stix® are more than a craft, they're a fun interactive learning tool! Soft and pliable, Wikki Stix® are easy to use and do not contain gluten, latex, nor any nuts or nut by-products. They are made of non-toxic wax, like that found in bubble gum and lipstick, along with basic hand-knitting yarn. Kit includes 192 colorful 8" Wikki Stix®, six 7" x 7"… More »

4 years & up. Match and learn with this fun twist on classic domino games! Children will strengthen literacy and math skills and will also learn to identify different emotions with this set of dominoes. Perfect for classroom activities or for family engagement. Set includes 3 game tins: Emotions Dominoes Game, Rhyming Words Dominoes, and Ten Frame Dominoes Game. Each game tin includes 28 dominoes.

2 years & up. Make learning more visual using these wonderful Practice Early Literacy Flash Card Set with Corresponding Pictures. This set includes everything pre-readers need to practice language and literacy skills! Each set includes flashcards to practice the alphabet, phonics, picture words, rhyming, and sight words. Encourage your children to practice these daily, individually or with a partner.