This comprehensive kit includes everything you need to introduce early phonics and reading skills to beginning English language learners. Each of these sequential lessons is carefully constructed around 48 unique songs or chants that introduce a new phonics skill (short a, consonants, long i, etc). The supporting components reinforce learning and aid fluency and comprehension. Kit includes: an illustrated Listen, Chant and Sing Big Book, companion musical CD, Instruction and Activity Book (104 pages), Home Connection Activity Book (52 pages), 24 double - sided Activity Cards, 208 Beginning Phonics Reading Rods (consonants and vowels) in a sturdy tub, Reading Rods Overhead Tiles and four plastic trays. Appropriate for students at the beginning English proficiency level. Aligned with Put Reading First and Title I and Title III of No Child Left Behind.