Language and Literacy Resources

3 years & up. Bring wildlife interactive story time with these wonderful Friendly Wild Animals from Different Climates and Countries Felt Set. Children will love identifying familiar animals or mimicking their sounds. This felt set promotes literacy, exploration, color recognition, and fine motor skills. Encourage your children to follow along reading stories with these animals or create their own. The set Includes 14 animal mothers and their young with a total of 22 precut pieces, each measuring 1"H to 7"H.

12 months & up. This precious owl family is a favorite for story-telling and puppet performances! This beautiful Mother Owl comes with her three adorable owl babies. Children can simulate flight in the Mother Owl by placing their hand into the puppet and placing their thumb in one wing and their little finger in the other wing. The three owl babies are finger puppets who can hide shyly under their mother's wings. Encourages creativity and imagination. Mother Owl measures 10.625"H x 6.25"W x 13"L.

2 years & up. These clever pebbles are an ideal tool for building interest in letters and sounds in a wide variety of contexts. Appeal to children's natural instinct to explore, investigate, sort and collect. Ideal for early word building. Each set includes a storage container and teacher's guide. Set of 26 pebbles. Pebbles are approximately 1.5" in size.

3 years & up. Have your children follow along to this familiar story with this detailed Children's Favorite Classic Stories Three Pigs Felt Set. This felt set follows the Three Pigs as they outwit the Wolf. Encourage your children to move the felt pieces along as the story progresses. Set includes 17 pre-cut flannel figures, a house that has "peek-in" doors, the classic story, and 4 reproducible coloring sheets. Made in the USA.

3 years & up. This Baby Turtle hand puppet is bright green, plush, plump, and huggable. He has movable feet and mouth, and can also hide inside his shell. Measures 10"L x 7"W x 3"Tall.

3 years & up. The Beginning Word Builder is a great group activity for practicing spelling, reading, and identifying words. The Beginning Word Builder is designed to grow with children as their literacy skills develop and encourages critical thinking skills to investigate vowel-consonant (VC), consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC), and consonant-vowel (CV) words. Word and picture cards attach to the top of the word builder for easy access to prompts. Includes 1 Word Builder, 8 Lowercase Letter Rings, 1 Blank Dry-Erase Ring, 1 Write 'N' Wipe Card, 1 Dry-Erase Marker, and 60 Double-Sided Cards.

18 months & up. The Baby Monster is full of personality and ready to help children cope with their anxiety and fears. It features a huge mouth with an air-filled squeaker full of different sounds. Children can write or draw their troubles on a piece of paper and feed it to the Baby Monster--he can hold on to their worries for them! Hand wash using mild soap and water, air dry. Measures 13"H x 8"W 8"D.

3 years & up. Children will love to work with these colorful magnetic letters and numbers! Introduce basic reading and math with this set of 40 uppercase and 40 lowercase letters, 30 numbers, and 6 operations pieces. The plastic pieces measure 2.5" high.

3 years & up. Write or draw, then wipe it away without a trace. These 5" x 7" marker boards are perfect for reading or writing centers. Set of 5 boards.

3 years & up. Children will enjoy helping these adorable kittens find their mittens as they learn about taking care of their belongings. The background scene is designed to fit into the Cardboard File Case. Set includes 15 felt figures to cut out including mother cat, 3 kittens, 3 sets of clean mittens, 3 sets of dirty mittens, 3 crying kitten faces, washtub, and cherry pie. The unmounted background scene measures 12" x 17". Text of this traditional story is also included. Felt board is sold separately.

4 years & up. Have a blast reinforcing phonological awareness! Place a photo card in the rocket doorway, and then sort cards that rhyme into the correct rocket. Sort by beginning and ending sounds, syllables and more. Includes 8 rockets, 80 real-life photo cards, and activity guide. Rockets measure 5"H x 2.25" in diameter.

3 years & up. Support literacy for bilingual learners with this set of felt letters. These letters will help children grow their literacy skills in a variety of ways. Children can begin by practicing letter sounds, progress to building basic words when they are ready, or do any number of literacy-related exercises. Activities like these will improve letter recognition skills, increase vocabulary, and establish strong readers.

Bilingual Carpet Seating Squares can be used to learn both English and Spanish. The vividly colored pictures provide the perfect way for children to learn the Spanish and English word for the image. Proudly made in the U.S.A., these squares are durably designed to provide a life time of learning and fun! Set includes eighteen squares. Each square measures 12" x 12".

PreK & up. Set of 24 laminated cards with picture and color clues for children to build three-letter words with Unifix® Letter Cubes CVC Sets. Color illustrations of common objects and animals.

3 years & up. Come and explore with bears, birds, and their friends with this exciting, versatile set. Children can improve their fine motor skills through pushing and pulling the felt items on and off the board. Set includes 60 precut pieces for storytelling, color recognition, counting, patterning, sorting, and more. Set also includes eight-page lesson guide.

3 years & up. Use these American Sign Language Alphabet Cards to familiarize children with the alphabet, beginning sounds, and the ASL manual alphabet. Each card features a letter of the alphabet and real photo on one side and a photograph of the ASL sign on the other. For a fun collaborative activity, go over the cards with your class and have everyone practice together. 26 cards included. Measures 8"L x 6"W.

3 years and up. Provide a wide array of reading support with the Little Minds at Work™ Science of Reading Essentials Toolkit. Developed by Tara West--the author of the Little Minds at Work™ blog--this comprehensive kit will boost phonemic awareness through activities that emphasize word segmentation and word blending. Including cubes, blocks, and phonics cards, this kit furnishes educators with many tools that facilitate and encourage early literacy while also giving children a variety of visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile experiences.

2 years & up. Build key foundations for letter formation with these natural looking stones, each one with a different pattern. As kids trace over the patterns from left to right, learning how to make shapes, the stones provide the sensory feedback needed to take the first steps in writing. Develops fine motor skills and the language necessary to talk about shapes and patterns. Also use them to make impressions in clay or dough, or use with sand, rice, and paint as part of a sensory tray. The durable rocks are suitable for indoor or outdoor use and wash off easily.

3 years & up. This little masked bandit will come to life with a little imagination and its movable head and arms. Measures 10"L x 5"W x 4"H.

4 - 6 years. Sandpaper Letters are an excellent resource for tactile learners, as well as reinforcing fine motor skills for younger learners. Helps develop letter recognition and early literacy skills. It is a useful resource for home or classroom learning activities, and helps students with special needs by providing sensory input to their literacy skills. Includes 26 uppercase letter cards and 28 lowercase letter cards.

3 - 9 years. The South America Readers include 9 readers with stories pertaining to the continent of South America. The continent readers allow emerging readers to read independently for content as they are studying a continent: these readers introduce phonetic elements with the same progression and color-coding as the Waseca Reading Program. The 9 stories in the South America Readers come with picture cards, text cards, and tyvek books, stored beautifully in the pockets of individual hardcover folios. Includes the guide to presentation (download), masters for each Reader story (download), and South America Readers (includes 9 booklets with 6 picture and 6 text cards for each booklet) with 10 brass icon clips and birch storage box.

Grades K - 1. This set includes 85 kindergarten-level lessons in the areas of letter recognition, reading readiness, phonics, sight words, punctuation and grammar, PLUS 15 challenge reading lessons for advanced learners. Hot Dots® Jr. Pen is included.

100 sentence strips for our pocket charts, 24"L x 3"W, 0.5" ruled.

3 years & up. Encourage role play and add realism to doll house activities. Promotes cognitive, motor, and social development while fostering meaningful connections between children, parents, grandparents, and older siblings. Helps with communication skills as children describe their creations and listen to family member's ideas. This multi-generational Caucasian family of 8 is made of solid vinyl, with realistic detailing. Each figure is free standing, with the tallest measuring 5"H.