Catalog # W-1704

Develop dexterity, problem-solving and reasoning skills, hand/eye coordination, color, shape, size identification, and most of all the spelling skills that these big, bright, multi-colored letters can accomplish for the pre-schoolers. The letters in the Set of Vowels are cut from individual pieces of wood. They are free standing so as to line up or lie down. The pieces are light in weight, large in size, so pre-schoolers can work with them easily. All are precut, safe, sturdy and water-resistant. The colors are non-toxic and stain-like impregnated finishes.

        The Vowels are all colored in :      YELLOW  

The Alphabet Letters & Colors Used are as follows:

       A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Consonants are a rotation of the following colors :
 RED   BLUE   ORANGE   BROWN   PURPLE   GREEN   BLACK  

The size of the letters are approximately 2-1/4" wide, 3-1/2" and 1-1/2" thick. The letters of the Alphabet Set are phonetically colored so as to aid a young child in spelling words by way of breaking down the words into syllables. The one primary color, Yellow, is on all of the Vowels ( A E I O U ), and the balance of letters, made up of Consonants, are colored by the remaining (2) primary colors, the (3)secondary colors, plus (2) combination colors, Black and Brown.

Please note here that the Alphabet Set is colored Phonetically, to assist the youngster to Enunciate Syllables and Pronounce Words. This Educational experience creates the use of reasoning skills and then spelling skills.

The simplest way to explain the way these work is this.

When viewing the entire set of Alphabet Letters, I ask anyone what one color is the most noticable to them. They will answer correctly over 90% of the time. Do you know which color it is? It is the color that is most prevalent. I then ask them what do they think the color represents. Most adults don't get it right at all. Even teachers are only 20% correct. Now the kids below 3rd grade get it right over 68% of the time. Give up? Ok, it is the color Yellow. Why is the yellow color so important you ask? Look at the Yellow in the Alphabet Set. What do you see? Yes, that's right, the Vowels, A E I O U.

Now for the rest of the story. When dealing with the phonetics aspect of this teaching toy, we find that most syllables are a group of consonants surounding a vowel. Armed with that knowledge, think about this. In our set of Alphabet Letters, it becomes very easy to take a word and break it down by selecting the groups of letters surrounding the "YELLOW" Vowels.

Point in fact, kids can learn quicker and get on track of pronouncing words sooner than than those not having the esposure to our system. When children pick up fun habits to excel in educational learning, I can't find any fault with that, can you?

And last but not least, this item is part of our entire line of:
Educational Wooden Toys/Games & Children's Play Furniture