Start Your Students Off Right with a Solid Phonics Foundation!
Target Grades:
PreK
K
1
2
3 4 5 6 7 8
One look at the colorful Rods and your students will be asking to build their names and other short words or sentences. Plus, when students combine Reading RodsŪ with their own exciting Student Activity Book, they will discover how much fun learning to read can be!
Students will use the following Reading Rods Kits to focus on phonemic and print awareness and phonics skills:
- Alphabet and Phonemic Awareness
- Initial Consonants and Word Families
- Simple Sentences
Learn more about Reading Rods Phonics kits
Target skills for students include:
- Naming and sequencing letters of the alphabet
- Recognizing syllables and rhyming words
- Adding, deleting, and replacing phonemes to change words
- Developing an understanding of letters and words
- Differentiating between consonants and vowels
- Using knowledge of phonics to build and read words
- Demonstrating knowledge of sight words
- Developing an awareness of syntax and grammar
Reading Rods Phonics Sample Pages
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Student Activity Book:
