The Age 5-7 Reading Materials Kit provides all the materials you need for the full year of the Age 5-7 Reading Program. Children build stronger reading skills when they can actively work with letters, sounds, and words. Moving letter cards, sorting sounds, and building words helps make phonics patterns easier to see and understand while reinforcing letter-sound connections, blends, vowel sounds, and early word-reading skills.

Make Your Child’s Reading More Engaging

This kit provides materials used in reading activities throughout both semesters. Here are a few examples your child will complete.

• Discover How One Letter Changes a Word: Using letter cards, your child builds a word and changes one letter at a time to create new words. Comparing each change makes sound substitution visible and shows how a single letter can change a word’s sound and meaning.
• Identify Beginning Blends by Sound: Your child names pictures and sorts them by beginning blends such as st, sm, sn, sk, sp, sl, and sw. Checking and adjusting the groups helps connect spoken beginning sounds with their printed spelling patterns.
• Apply Phonics Through Reading: Your child reads One Can aloud, points to each word, and answers simple comprehension questions. This builds decoding, sight word recognition, and understanding in a connected story.
• Explore the Different Sounds of “ea”: Your child sorts picture cards according to the sound made by ea. Comparing the groups reveals that the same letter combination can represent long e, short e, or long a sounds.
• Recognize Different Ways to Spell Long Vowels: Your child matches long-vowel spelling patterns with example words and organizes them by vowel sound. Building the chart shows that the same long vowel sound can be represented by several different spelling patterns.

Hands-On Tools for Growing Reading Skills

Reading concepts can be easier to understand when children can see, move, and compare the parts of words. The Age 5-7 Reading Materials Kit supports this kind of active learning. This matters because early reading depends on children understanding how sounds, letters, and spelling patterns work together, giving them a stronger foundation for decoding unfamiliar words and becoming more independent readers.

* Note: If you are looking to upgrade your 5-7 Reading kit, consider purchasing the Age 5-7 Reading Manipulative Package. It includes everything offered in the 5-7 Reading Kit and includes our Age 5-7 Weekly Readers. We recommend using these items together.

The following items are included in this kit. This list is subject to change.

• handwriting paper
• highlighters
• laminated writing sheet
• lowercase letter cards
• Making Sentences cards
• readers
• rubber bands
• sight word cards
• thin dry-erase markers
• uppercase letter cards
• Weekly Message book
• word building cards
• blank word cards