Beginning readers will love learning uppercase and lowercase letters with colourful Reading Rods(r)! By linking together letter and picture Rods, children develop valuable pre-reading skills. Kit contains 108 rods including: - Vowels - Consonants - Pictures with initial vowel sounds - Pictures with initial consonant sounds Skills Taught: - Recognizing uppercase and lowercase letters - Sequencing the letters of the alphabet - Identifying phonemes (sounds) - Matching letter sounds with pictures (r with rabbit)