Your beginning readers will develop skills in phonics and spelling by sorting and building words based on word families and then reading the words out loud. By linking together rods, children are taught initial and final consonant sounds and blends, short and long vowel word families, related spelling patterns and how to build and group rhyming words. Kit includes set of 90 Reading Rods in a convenient storage tub (LER7106), 24 double - sided Activity Cards (LER7110), 4 activity trays (LER7130) and a 48 - page Instruction and Activity Book (LER7114) with lesson plans, blackline masters and over 100 full - color demonstration cards. Color - coded rods include consonants, beginning blends, and two - , three - and four - letter word families. Use with 1 - 4 students. Aligned with Put Reading First and Title I of No Child Left Behind.   WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.