Manipulatives

Title: Twist & Read, Word Family Eggs Company Name: Lakeshore Copyright Date: 2009 Physical Description: 12 wooden word building colored Eggs Summary: Allows students build words and develop phonemic awareness. Skills: Students explore word building hands-on with these easy-to-use wooden eggs. Students twist the eggs to match onsets with rimes, building a new word with every twist. Students can build a total of 96 words from 37 word families. Reviewer thoughts: good way to build and expand students’ vocabulary and phonemic awareness. Reviewers: Bernadette Tourtillott, Carrie Peters, Lauren Stoehr

Title**: Lakeshore Hands-On Sight-Word Cubes Levels 1 through 4 Students roll colorful cubes with Fry’s sight words recognizing and reading a new sight word with each roll. You get 8 sets of 5 different cubes, each with 6 different sight-words-for total of 40 wooden cubes and 30 sight words. Each level had 30 new words in each set Students will recognize sight-words instantly Students will develop reading fluency Students will develop writing and spelling skills.
 * Melody and Cameo
 * Company Name**: Lakeshore
 * Copy Right Date:** 2009
 * Physical Description**: 4 sets, each their own level, of 40 multi- colored cube
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Reviewers Thoughts: May be difficult to keep separated by levels however the words on each set of dice are a different color: Level 1- yellow words Level 2- white words Level 3- black words Level 4- gold words

Very versatile; can do many things with dice and dice games.

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Title: Magnetic Sound Sorting Board Company Name: **Lakeshore** CopyRight Date: **© 2007**. Physical Description: 72 picture magnets, Magnetic Board, and Activity Guide Summary: A list of rhyming words is included on activity guide which is very helpful. Since there is only one board could only be done in small group or one on one. Good activity to start a writing workshop. Match up pictures by their sound... to build language skills hand-on! Skills: Students will build phonemic awareness. Student will identify words by rhyming song. Students will match words by sound. Subjects: Reading, Phonics, Vocabulary (MP JSU)

Company Name:** Lakeshore Physical Description:** 50 question cards and Phonemic Awareness Box Pictures show a letter sound, letter combination sound, and one pictorial example. The student reads the card "what food can you think of that starts with the sound 'st' ?"
 * Title: Let's Talk! Phonemic Awareness Box
 * CopyRight Date:** © 2009**.
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 * Skills:** Students will build phonemic awareness. Student will recall and list words that start (or possibly end if you wanted to change it up) with the given sounds
 * Subjects:**, Reading, Phonics, Vocabulary (MP JSU)

Cameo Self & Ashley Bierman

Title: Twist & Turn Word Builders Company: Lakeshore Copyright: 2008 Physical description: 10 word builders, each has three 4-sided beads attached to a sturdy rod Summary: Children turn the beads to create various words, helps the students with word recognition, decoding cvc words, and to distinguish real words from nonsense words. Reviewer thoughts: It’s a good activity to build their word recognition and its fun. There are many ways to use the word builders.

Title: Sort & Slide Phonics Company: Lakeshore Copyright: 2010 Physical description: There are 60 picture word tiles, 20 letter tiles, and a sorting board Summary: Children use the sorting board to build their phonics. They choose 3-4 letter tiles to slide into slots on the board, and then they find picture tiles that start with the same beginning sound to slide into the slots. Reviewer thoughts: It’s a great hands on activity for children to build both their letter recognition and vocabulary.

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 * Title**: Lets Talk! Oral Language Box.
 * Company**: Lakeshore
 * Copy Right Date:** 2009
 * Physical Description**: Flash cards in a magic looking box (Oral Language Box).
 * Summary:** An oral language box that gets children talking, classifying, and building their vocabulary. It provides activities that allow students to build their oral language and vocabulary skills. It can be used by individuals, small groups, or the entire class.
 * Title:** Alphabet Mystery? Box
 * Company**: Lakeshore
 * Copy Right Date:** 2009
 * Physical Description:** 26 miniature figurines, Alphabet Game Board, Mystery Box.
 * Summary:** This game is designed for the players to pull a figurine out of the mystery box and place it on the corresponding letter. This game involves phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and phonics. It also engages students in identifying uppercase letters, vocabulary development, and associating letters with sounds.

Title: Magnetic Sound Sorting Board Company Name: Lake Shore Copyright Date: 2007 Physical Description: 72 picture magnets, Magnetic board, and Activity guide Summary: Hands on activity for students to practice ending sound to match picture magnets with corresponding ending sounds. Skills: Phonemic awareness, word ending sounds, picture word identification skills, matching words by sounds Reviewer thoughts: Not really versatile, pretty simple. There is less variation in changing the activity. (Jeremy, Marcus, Leona)

Janelle & Ashley
 * Title **: Word Stretchers
 * Company Name **: Lakeshore
 * Copyright Date **: **© **. 2010
 * Physical Description **: There are 48 letter cards, 3 letter word stretchers, a 4 letter words stretcher, and activity guide.


 * Summary **: The word stretcher is a hands-on activity, as well as visual, for students as they build and sound out words.


 * Skills: ****Association with letters and sound, isolation and blending phonemes, and decode words. **


 * Reviewer thoughts: ** The word stretcher is limited to three and four letter words. It is difficult to manipulate. The students would have to work with a partner or a group. It would be easier to just write the word out.