Educational Insights Phonics Dominoes: Short Vowels

We use this product in teaching English as a second language. The students of all ages have enjoyed this product. We use it in many different variations for activities. It has also been a great learning tool to our own younger children (4 and 7).

My students enjoy making words with these tiles. It's great for students who only know short vowel and consonant sounds. It was challenging for some of my students but most enjoy trying to create words. My only criticism is that the tub is really too small for the tiles. Unless you stack them perfectly (which most kids will never do) they do not fit in the tub. Be prepared to have a container for them.

Kids loved these manipulatives

This was a great gift for my grandchildren as I still believe phonics is an excellent way to teach reading.

I love each of these sets! It takes a minute to put them away by leaning the tub on its side, but I’m glad because then it doesn’t take up a lot of space on my shelf.

My school teachers were using this to teach short vowels so I gave it a try. Very happy! My kids picked up easily and we had a lot of fun doing word trains.

I use these in my kindergarten classroom! Great find!

These are an excellent resource for anyone working on building language. My students didn’t even realize they were learning!

Great product. Arrived on time. Bought several of these types of products. A couple of the containers were missing the handles. But did not affect product usage.

These are great my students I’ve playing with them BUT they do not go back into the container. I had to buy a little bin for them so the cute handle is pointless rather than a bonus feature.

My children has really enjoyed using these. It's been really helpful in getting them to think of other words, whilst revising their sounds. I love that it all gets packed up in to a plastic jar, that has a handle attached, makign it easy to travel. The only thing is that I wish the container was bigger. The neck of the jar is very narrow and it's a tight fit for all the pieces to go back in to.

So this a a great learning tool bit it is much smaller than I had anticipated and also doesmt make too many words. Either way it was a nice fun way for my kids to learn to read and make short vowel words. For the price I expected more for my money.. I could make a similar (higher quality) item for less. These should sell closer to the 10-15$ range.

Teacher suggested out five year old wasn’t flying with phonics, a few weeks of playing with these and some flash cards without too much effort and no pressure she is back on track. Very happy. Also nicely tidied away in the plastic jar.