Beginning Word Building Kit - Folder Style (2026 Version)

This kit is great for typical Kindergarten students and also for the summer before first grade. Some first grade teachers requested this type of kit for use at the beginning of the year in first grade.  This kit comes with a Magnetic-Receptive Whiteboard Folder and 40 of the most common grapheme magnet tiles. There are also 4 affix tiles and 12 blank tiles for flexiblity. This is an excellent tool to use as students are developing the neural pathway between the sound processor in the brain to the symbol processor in the brain. Hands-on spelling practice with explicit instruction and corrective feedback is the fastest way to pave this important pathway in the brain.  We want the child to engage the sound processor as they touch and move the letter tiles. Instead of referring to the name of the letter, we encourage them to use the sound that the letter represents in that word. Some sounds are continuants and we can produce those sounds until our breath runs out. The graphemes that repres