Make those foundational literacy skills really "stick" for children! Great for hands-on phonics and word-building. Designed in conjunction with PhD literacy experts at a reading center with a long-standing history of successfully helping children improve their developmental reading skills. Carefully designed, easy-read font supports children in differentiating various letter shapes, even those that may seem similar to kids (i. e. , lowercase "a" and lowercase "d"). Letters are color coded (blue consonants and red vowels on a crisp white background for high contrast) to provide pre-emergent, emergent, and beginning readers all-important visual cues. Since some consonants act as vowels sometimes, this set even includes red y's and w's (for building words such as "toy" and "cow"). Magnet tiles (1 inch wide x 1. 38 inches high) are made of flexible magnet, so their entire backs are covered in magnet material (for strength)ludes 144 magnet tiles (141 letters--113 lowercase and 28 uppercase--plus 3 blanks), double-sided magnetic dry-erase board (9 inches x 12 inches), and activity booklet. These exact letter quantities are included: a: 1, a: 8, b: 1, b: 4; C: 1, C: 4, D: 1, D: 4, E: 1, E: 12, F: 1, F: 3, G: 1, G: 3, H: 1, H: 3, I: 1, I: 10, J: 1, J: 1, K: 1, K: 2, L: 1, L: 4, M: 1, M: 4, N: 1, N: 6, O: 1, O: 9, p: 1, p: 3, Q: 1, Q: 1, R: 1, R: 6, s: 1, s: 6, t: 1, t: 6, U: 1, U: 3, V: 1, V: 2, W: 2: W: 3, x: 1, x: 1, Y: 2, Y: 3, Z: 1, Z: 2. For ages 3+/grades PreK+