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Language Arts Manipulatives

Listed below are helpful manipulatives for students studying Language Arts. Some are available for purchase, while others may be created at home.

Language Arts
blocks with letters on them reading "language arts"

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Alphabet Center Pocket Chart
Learning Resources ABC letter chart (uppercase and lowercase). Ages 2+
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Alphabet Dice
Upper-case and lower-case foam dice letters grouped into vowels and consonants (ages 2+)
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Alphabet Letters Sensory Toys
Short vowel reading spelling games with a sensory component (ages 3+)
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Alphabet Wooden Puzzles
Wooden alphabet puzzle for kids ages 3-5
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Alphabet Splat! Game
Card game for practicing letter recognition (ages 2-4)
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Apples to Apples Card Game
Make word combinations in a fun family game (ages 4+)
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Bananagrams Word-a-Melon
Take turns rolling the die, flipping the cardboard letter chips and creating words with the overturned letters (ages 6+)
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Big Boggle
Search letters to create words of 4 letters or more (Ages 8+)
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Big Box of Sentence Building Puzzle Game
Includes 250 puzzle pieces covering basic sight words, word families, and digraphs to create sentence strips (ages 5+)
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Blurt!
Build vocabulary, develop auditory comprehension and word recall (Ages 7+)
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Bubble MultiSensory Uppercase Alphabet
POP alphabet fidget blocks for ages 3-6
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Channie’s Visual Handwriting Quick & Neat Writing Pad
Visual handwriting blocks: double-sided sheets with blank color-coded blocks (ages 3-6)
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Coogam Learn to Write Workbook
Learning book covers all the essential writing letters and numbers. Learn to write tracing workbook (ages 2-4)
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Coogam Short Vowel Spelling Flashcards
CVC Word Writing Card: 114 pcs of CVC word cards separated into two levels by colors (ages 3-5)
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Coogam Wooden Letters Practicing Board
Double-sided Design: Wooden letters tracing board with upper case letters on one side and lower case on the other (ages 3-5)
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CVC Word Spelling Games
Wooden CVC word flash cards set to learn common sight words (ages 3-6)
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Dabble Word Game
Fast-Paced Family Board Game | Enhances Spelling and Vocabulary for All Ages
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Dashed Handwriting Lines Practice Roller Stamp
Dashed handwriting line stamp to manually draw handwritten lines or print paper (ages 3-8)
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Design & Drill ABCs & 123s
Use a power drill and bolts to re-create letters and numbers shown on a letter or number card (ages 3+)
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Didax Uppercase Sandpaper Letters
28 tactile alphabet cards for ages 2-4
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DK Games: Silly Sentences
Younger players learn about nouns, verbs, adjectives, and more with the help of 124 color-coded cards (ages 5-6)
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Double Bananagrams Word Game
Create words to build crossword grids (Ages 7+)
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Double Sided Magnetic Letter Board
2 in 1 Alphabet Magnets Tracing Board for Toddlers (ABC Letters Uppercase & Lowercase)
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Dry Erase Magnetic Sentence Strips
Tool for classrooms or home learning environments, facilitating activities like practicing handwriting, sight words, math exercises, spelling, number lines, etc (ages 4-6)
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Edupress Inference School Days Game
Players make their way from elementary school through college by reading story cards that ask them to infer something about the text (Ages 8+)
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Edupress Learning Well Games Drawing Conclusions
Stranded on a deserted island, players must draw conclusions from the text on story cards to obtain life-saving supplies. (Ages 7+)
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Edupress Reading Comprehension Practice Cards
Reading comprehension practice cards (Ages 6+)
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Goofy Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word Game
Fill-in-the-blank stories-Language arts practice: Mad Libs build reading comprehension and grammar skills (ages 7+)
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Grammar Wise Activity Set
Game to reinforce the parts of speech to children ages 6+
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hand2mind Elkonin Boxes
Magnetic, dry-erase, double-sided Elkonin Box Answer Boards can be used to segment and blend words or used for advanced skills like phoneme manipulation and phoneme identification (ages 4-6)
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hand2mind Lowercase Alphabet Chips
Lowercase letter manipulatives (age 3+)
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hand2mind Phonics Word-Building Magnetic Letter Tiles
Letter recognition for kindergarten, letter sounds, phonics manipulatives, phonemic awareness
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Handwriting Practice Book for Kids—Autism Educational Montessori
Early educational cognitive development, improving creative thinking, reading and understanding, concentration and attention focusing, writing and hand eye coordination (ages 4-6)
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Handwriting Without Tears Kindergarten Printing Bundle
Form good handwriting habits, a foundation for confident writers, help children check their letter, word and sentence skills, teach children how to place letters on lines, control letter size, and develop line generalization ability (ages 4-6)
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hand2mind Reading Rods
Alphabet cubes, CVC word builders, ABC linking cubes, Hands-On phonics manipulatives kit (ages 6+)
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Idioms Fun Deck
Helps children learn common idioms and their meanings (ages 7+)
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In a Pickle Card Game
Card game to foster creative thinking with words (ages 10+)
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Interactive Alphabet Spinning Card
ABC letters/numbers learning game and sight words (ages 3-5)
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Jumbo Magnetic Handwriting Paper
Large magnetic handwriting paper for whiteboard to develop writing skills (ages 4-6)
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Junior Learning Sentences
Sentence Flips to provide a hands-on approach to learning essential elements of sentence construction such as nouns, adjectives, and verbs (ages 4-6)
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Learning Well Games Context Clues
Reading comprehension games support the various levels of bloom's taxonomy (Ages 7+)
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kizh Wooden Letter and Number Construction Activity Set
Wooden letter and number construction activity set (ages 3-5)
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Learning Resources Alphabet Island
Practice letter recognition and strengthen early vocabulary skills while hunting for alphabet treasures on alphabet island (ages 4+)
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Learning Resources POP for Word Families Game
Children create and learn words with common endings in a fast-paced game (ages 6+)
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Learning Without Tears - Cursive Kickoff Student Workbook
Facilitates an easy transition from printing to cursive with digital instruction opportunities available (ages 5-7)
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Letter Construction Set
Learning Resources 60 piece letter construction kit (ages 2+)
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Learning Resources Uppercase Lacing Alphabet
Lacing alphabet kit to improve letter recognition, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills (age 3+)
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Learning Resources Writing Prompt Cubes
Early vocabulary, story prompt and phonics helper (ages 5+)
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Magnetic Letters
234 piece set of upper and lowercase letters with magnetic board and storage box (ages 4-6)
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Magnetic Wooden Fishing Game
Plunack alphabet fishing toy for kids aged 3-5
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Metaphors & Similes Fun Deck
Helps children learn metaphors and similes (words used to describe something by comparing it with something else) Ages 7+
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Playfoam Shape & Learn 26 Letter Alphabet Set
Letter recognition, ABC learning, sensory Letters for kids aged 3+
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Play On Words Card Game
Highly-versatile game meets players where they are with spelling, resourcefulness in word making, and vocabulary (ages 8+)
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Poetry Tiles Essential Kit
Contains heaps of English's most common words and helpful connecting words to create poems and sentences (ages 8+)
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Post-It Super Sticky Easel Pad
Easel paper to create charts, sentences, and word lists (all ages)
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Prefixes & Suffixes Bingo
Build word recognition, vocabulary, reading comprehension skills for common prefixes and suffixes (ages 8+)
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Quiddler Card Game
Enhance spelling, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills for kids ages 8+
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Really Good Stuff Tap and Write CVC Words
Students tap on black dots to reinforces good listening skills with a tactile approach (ages 4-6)
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Rhyming Words Splat Game
Card game for matching basic rhyming words (ages 2-4)
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Rory's Story Cubes Classic
Create unique stories by combining items, characters, places, and animals (ages 6+)
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Sand Tray for Classroom
Wooden sand trays for kids writing letters and numbers (ages 3+)
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Scattergories
Using the dice to roll a letter, write unique words that begin with the same letter (ages 13+)
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Scrabble
Put letters together, build words, and earn the most points to win in this classic game (ages 8+)
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Sight Word Magnets for Fridge
Pre-K, Kindergarten, first, second, and third grade sight words magnets to build reading skills
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Silicone Alphabet Puzzle
Silicone alphabet puzzle for toddlers and children aged 2+
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Skill Builders! Preschool Letters
Language skill set for kids age 3+
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Spaceman Writing Tools Spacers for Writing
Finger spacers for kids to put between words to train word spacing for kids ages 4-6
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Spying Parts of Speech
Board game for hands-on teaching of sentence structure (ages 7+)
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Super Sentence Game
Reinforce correct grammar by constructing grammatically correct sentences using who, what, where, and when phrases (ages 8+)
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Super Sleuth Vocabulary Game
Detective-themed vocabulary game with 180+ mysteries to solve (ages 3+)
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The Pencil Grip Original Pencil Grippers
Created by a doctor: pencil grips for adults and kids for wide use in classrooms, homes, and therapeutic settings (ages 2-4 and adults)
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TickiT Rainbow Gel Alpha Boats
Set includes clear, plastic boats labeled with uppercase letters on one side and corresponding lowercase letters on the other (ages 3+)
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Ticonderoga My First Tri-Write Wood-Cased Pencils
Triangular shaped, oversized pencil with large size diameter for children in the early stages of writing development (ages 3-5)
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Triple Tongue Twisters
Improve English while practicing pronunciation, enunciation, accent, memory & more (ages 8+)
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Uppercase Alphabet Stamps
Learning Resources set of 26 letter and punctuation stamps (uppercase only) Ages 4+
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Upwords
Assemble and stack letters to create words (ages 8-12)
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Urban Supply Sight Word Memory Game
Reading and language builder for ages 3+
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Wooden Alphabet Number Stamp Flashcard, ABC Spelling Letter Stampers and Mathematics Learning Number Stampers
Wooden Alphabet and Number Stamps: 26 letter stamps, 10 number stamps, 3 arithmetic sign stamps, and 26 activity cards for kids aged 3-5
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Wooden Alphabet Tracing Boards
Montessori-inspired to practice proper letter formation and develop reading and writing skills (ages 2+)
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Wooden Giraffe Alphabet Blocks
Wooden animals giraffe jigsaw puzzle with alphabet and number blocks (ages 3+)
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Wooden Jumbo Alphabet
Montessori ABC letter puzzles (ages 3-5)
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Word A Round
Boosts vocabulary and concentration skills in kids aged 10+
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Wordical
Roll the vowel dice and combine the letters with the consonant cards in your hand (ages 8+)
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Word on the Street
Easy-to-learn and fun-to-play word game helps to develop vocabulary skills, creative thinking skills, and encourages teamwork (ages 10+)
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Word on the Street Jr.
Easy-to-learn and fun-to-play word game helps to develop vocabulary skills, creative thinking skills, and encourages teamwork (ages 7+)
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Wordplay for Kids
Engaging game helps kids sharpen their word-building skills, improve vocabulary, enhance spelling, and boost focus (ages 6+)
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Word Pop Fidget Game
Multisensory reading & phonics interactive game (ages 3-6)
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Word Slam
Improve reading fluency and early literacy skills (ages 5+)
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Word Teasers
Thinking puzzles and brain teasers for boosting brain activity in kids ages 10+
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WordWall Challenge Card Game
Assorted compound word cards produce up to hundreds of different terms and words that ages 5 and up can learn and master
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