These scientifically based, multisensory tools help children learn short and long vowel patterns and practice advanced phonics skills. Develop decoding, word building, and spelling skills with our hands on literacy reading rods. Our reading rods help with constructing CVC words, or consonant-vowel-consonant words for early readers as well as larger words for next steps. The color coded rods easily snap together! A hands on approach to early literacy skills. Comes with 70 color coded rods that include consonants, vowels, vowel teams, and affixes.