30 painted wooden boards in pink and blue with sand letters (lowercase) in print

29 painted wooden boards in pink and blue with sand letters (uppercase) in print

19 cm wide and 16 cm high

19 cm wide and 12 cm high

Serves the development of hand-eye coordination. Connection of sound and written symbols through hearing, seeing, and feeling.

Preparation for word construction, reading, and writing

incl. 2 boxes

Kindergarten from 3 years

After various language games in which the child identifies sounds of our language, the educator selects a sandpaper letter and runs their index and middle finger over the letter several times, and the child does the same. Then the educator pronounces the letter sound, the child repeats the sound, and the educator names some words that begin with that sound. This process continues with a 2nd and 3rd letter that differ significantly in sound and shape. The second and third stages of the three-stage lessons follow.

Second stage/ further exercises:

- the child feels familiar letters with closed eyes, words with the initial sound are searched for

- the child brings the sandpaper letter to a child whose name contains the sound or to an object in the room

- small objects are sorted by initial sound, medial sound, and final sound

- the child chooses a letter and calls all the children whose names begin with that sound to him

- words of animals, etc. are searched for that start with 'A', for example

Third stage: The educator asks the child for the name of the letter.