Kit: Thick Foldable Board & sheet of 80 tiles (scissors required)

Thick Foldable whiteboard with a magnetic sheet of 80 tiles to be cut apart with scissors by an adult. Open, the whiteboard measures 12 x 18 inches. The blank white side is great space for dictation sentence practice or for providing structured practice when you give the kids a multisyllabic word to chunk into syllables as they attempt to spell it. Closed, the folder measures 9 x 12 inches. It can be stored (with the strong magnet tiles still inside it) in a zipper pouch, a cubby, banker’s box or whatever works for you. This is a perfect tool to increase capability and confidence in phonology, orthography and morphology in readers. As students participate in word chaining sessions, they improve in phonemic discrepancy. Changing “turn” into “burn” into “barn” into “bark” helps students to listen and focus in on the phoneme level of words. Focusing on the spelling patterns of various sounds develops orthographic mapping in the brain. We hear the /sh/ sound in many words. It can be repres