Improve your English language learners' oral language while honoring their first language and culture! This systematic, engaging manipulative-based kit helps you expand students' phonics, listening and pronunciation skills and develop students' word study skills through highly decodable text. Each of the 48 sequential lessons is based on fluency-building songs or chants with supporting materials that teach vocabulary and spelling in context. Targeted phonics skills include blends, digraphs, r-controlled vowels, homophones, plurals, polysyllabic words, prefixes, suffixes, silent letters and more. Take-home activities encourage connections between school and family. Kit includes illustrated Listen, Chant & Sing Big Book with companion audio CD, Instruction & Activity Book, Home Connection Activity Book, 25 double-sided Activity Cards, 223 Intermediate Phonics & Word Study Reading Rods® in a sturdy tub, Reading Rods® overhead tiles and 4 plastic trays. Read More