Emergent readers will delight over the three-letter words they can make and read with this kit! Students will progress from focusing on consonants to focusing on vowels and learning how to isolate the short vowel sound in the middle of a word. This kit is an excellent tool for learning spelling patterns found in rhyming words and syllables of longer words. Even nonsense words will provide a learning experience! Grades K–1.
Target skills:
	Master initial consonant sounds (onsets)
	Build CVC words
	Sort three-letter words based on common rimes (phonograms)
	Sort three-letter words based on short vowel sounds and on initial and final consonants
	Use spelling patterns to read decodable texts

--Available Reading Rods Kits-- Alphabet & Phonemic Awareness Kit Initial Consonants & Word Families Kit Making Words Kit Phonics Word-Building Kit Prefixes, Suffixes, & Root Words Kit Simple Sentences Kit Sentence-Construction Kit Vocabulary Kit