Your pre - emergent and emergent readers will develop phonemic, phonological and alphabet awareness by using letter and picture rods to learn sounds, letters and letter - sound relationships. By linking together letter and picture rods, children learn to how to identify initial, medial and final sounds; recognize and write uppercase and lowercase letters; sequence the letters of the alphabet and build simple words. Kit includes set of 108 Reading Rods in a storage tub (7105), 24 double - sided Activity Cards (LER7109), 4 activity trays (LER7130) and a 48 - page Instruction and Activity Book (LER7113) with lesson plans, blackline masters and over 100 full - color demonstration cards. Color - coded rods include vowels, consonants, pictures with initial vowel sounds and pictures with initial consonant sounds. Use with 1 - 4 students. Aligned with Put Reading First and Title I of No Child Left Behind.