Educational phonics and alphabet workbook with movable letter tiles and accessories for learning sounds.
Magnetic Board w/Tiles
Colorful silicone ice cube trays, including pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue.
Phonemic Awareness Trays
A collection of children's books featuring animals and nature themes, arranged in rows and colorful covers.
Express Readers
Orange box labeled 'Word Teasers' with a large black and purple question mark on the top, designed for teaching 5th and 6th graders. Includes a card with the word 'generous' and its definition.
Word Teasers: Junior Kids (8+)
Word Teasers: Middle School (10+)
Colorful stamps, stacks of paper hearts, and sheets of paper with geometric patterns on a white background.
Orthographic Mapping
Box of educational reading rods for children with color-coded word pieces and sentence construction activity.
Sentence Rods
Stack of multicolored educational paper folders with some visible children's books in front.
Just Right Readers (English & Spanish)
Box of hand2mind phonics word-building magnetic tiles with color-coded letter tiles spelling words.
Magnetic Letter Tiles
Two yellow books titled 'The Unusual Cave' by Yellow Set Book 59, featuring black text and black and white illustrations of a cave on the cover.
Hello Decodables: Fiction
Hello Decodables: Nonfiction
Colorful plastic scoops and piles of small plastic tokens in yellow, green, blue, and red.
Magnetic Wands & Chips
Fidget game word pop set including purple, blue, red, and green bubble pop boards, each with lettered bubbles, a card with the word 'fox', and colorful packaging with a cartoon girl mascot.
The Fidget Game
Logo for 'Developing Decoders' with a brain graphic integrated into the text. Below are cartoon-style game cards related to fishing and fish shop themes.
Developing Decoders
Box of wood scrabble tiles with letter tiles scattered in front. The box contains four letter tiles spelling "MAGICFLY" on top. The packaging reads "WOOD SCRABBLE TILES" and "1000" with details about tile size.
Scrabble Tiles
Talking Mirror My Sounds phoneme set toy with flashcards and a blue mirror device, designed for children aged 3 and up to help learn sounds and pronunciation.
Mirror Sets
A LEGO-style letter and symbol tile board with scattered beige letter and symbol tiles, along with a blue drawstring bag labeled 'Starship BRICKS' and 'Dream. Create. Grow.'
Alpha Briks
Saddleback Educational Publishing logo with an open book icon.
Saddleback Publishing
Educational toy set called 'Reading Rods Phonics Word Building' with color-coded plastic blocks featuring letters and phonics sounds, arranged in groups, along with a guidebook and packaging promoting early literacy skills for children aged 6 and up.
Word Building

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-Dana Gomez

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