Product Guide
Understand which products to add to your collection based on your child’s age and stage. These versatile combos will you give you the very most bang for your buck by supporting a variety of learning objectives.
LITERACY GUIDE
Uppercase + Lowercase + Letter Sounds
Age: 3-6 years (through Kinder)
Reading Stage: Emergent Reader
Important Skills:
Recognize letters by their names and/or sounds.
Notice letters in their own name.
Compare and match uppercase/lowercase letters.
Develop phonological awareness.
Identify beginning sounds of words.
Understand letter-sound relationships.
CVC Word Board + Dry Erase Coins
Age: 6-8 years old (Kinder-1st grade)
Reading Stage: Early Reader
Important Skills:
Blend sounds into words.
Segment words into individual sounds.
Read CVC words (like cat, dog, sun)
Phonics concepts:
short vowels
digraphs (like ch, th, or ph)
trigraphs (like tch or igh)
consonant blends
simple word families
CVC Word Board + Lowercase Coins + Blends & Digraphs Coins
Age: 7-9 years (1st-2nd grade)
Reading Stage: Transitional Reader
Important Skills:
Decode multisyllabic words.
Recognize common spelling patterns.
Improve reading accuracy.
Phonics concepts:
long vowel pattern
silent e
vowel teams (ai, ea, oa, ee)
r-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur)
diphthongs (oi, oy, ow, ou)
inflectional endings (-ed, -ing, -s)
Dry-erase Alphabet Workbook
Age: 3-6 (Pre-k through Kindergarten)
Writing Stage: Early Writer
Important Skills:
Write recognizable letters and numbers.
Write their first name.
Begin letter-sound correspondence.
Use invented (phonetic) spelling.
Develop hand strength for gripping and maneuvering a pencil.
*I recommend pairing this with the Dry Erase Numbers Workbook.
MATH GUIDE
Ten Frames (2x) + Number Coins 0-20
Age: 3-5 years (Pre-K through Kinder)
Math Stage: Emergent Number Sense
Important Skills:
One-to-one correspondence
Stable counting sequence
Cardinality
Recognizing numerals
Comparing quantities
Simple patterns
*If your curriculum uses a stacked (2×5) ten frame, those are interchangeable with the 1x10 and will accomplish the same goals. I recommend using the ten frame that matches your curriculum.
Math Board + Number Coins + Math Symbol Coins
Age: 5-7 (Kinder through 1st grade)
Math Stage: Early Number Operations
Important Skills:
Count on & count back
Subitizing
Compose and decompose numbers
Addition and subtraction within 10
Understand part-part-whole relationships
Compare numbers
Begin understanding of place value
Hundred Board + Number Tiles
Age: 6-9 years old (1st through 3rd grade)
Math Stage: Developing Number Sense
Important Skills:
Addition and subtraction fluency
Place value understanding
Skip counting
Beginning multiplication
Beginning division
Mental math strategies
Recognizing patterns