Beginning readers will love learning uppercase and lowercase letters with colorful Reading Rods® . By linking together letter and picture rods, children develop valuable pre-reading skills. Kit contains:/ 24 double-sided activity cards, a 48-page Instruction and Activity Book with over 100 full-color demonstration cards, 4 activity trays, and 108 rods in a storage tub. Rods include: Vowels, Consonants, Pictures with initial vowel sounds, and Pictures with initial consonant sounds. Skills Taught: Recognizing uppercase and lowercase letters, Sequencing the letters of the alphabet, Identifying phonemes (sounds), and Matching letter sounds with pictures (r with rabbit). Ages 3 to 5