Little Red Tool Box: Sentence-Building Tiles Super Set

Research shows that kinesthetic experiences with literacy manipulatives help set the stage for reading and writing success. The Sentence-Building Tiles Super Set includes 212 magnetic foam, color-coded word tiles plus 16 punctuation tiles that can be combined to build thousands of meaningful sentences. Children develop reading fluency, understanding of word relationships, parts of speech, and beginning writing skills as they build simple sentences and practice reading them. Supports Reading First and the No Child Left Behind Initiatives.

TARGET SKILLS: Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Grammar & Writing
• Develop concepts of print and word relationships
• Explore usage of nouns, verbs and key parts of speech to create sentences
• Divide sentences into meaningful chunks (phrases &clauses) to build text comprehension
• Automaticity of word recognition & usage to build fluency