Scholastic:  Here’s a new fun way to lead children on the road to literacy! Start building a foundation for academic success with the Learning Mats: Long Vowels kit. 
Here’s a new fun way to lead children on the road to literacy! Colorful mats and word tiles make learning and practicing phonics fun. Start building a foundation for academic success with the Learning Mats: Long Vowels kit. The kit helps children practice these key reading skills:
• Identify long-vowel sounds and words
• Distinguish the long-vowel sound in words
• Develop automaticity (fluency) in reading words with long vowels
• Write words with long vowels
• Associate long-vowel sounds with common spellings for the five major vowels
• Develop vocabulary