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What's Included?
Magnetic Dry-Erase Folder
  • A4 foldable magnetic dry-erase board
  • 23cm closed width
  • 46cm open width
  • Colour-coded and grapheme-coded placeholders
  • "My Word" word-building area
  • 30mm dotted third handwriting lines
  • Easy-clean whiteboard surface
Magnetic Tile Set

96 foam magnetic tiles including:

  • 88 grapheme tiles
  • 5 affix tiles:
    -s
    -es
    -ed
    -ing
    -er
  • 8 blank tiles
Vowel Valley Authorised Distributor

As the authorised reseller across Australia and New Zealand, Sound Base Education is proud to distribute Vowel Valley Magnetic Word Building Kits. These high-quality products represent the first resource in a growing range of practical, evidence-aligned literacy tools that will be made available to educators.

Designed for whole-class teaching, small-group instruction, and targeted intervention, the Vowel Valley Magnetic Word Building Kits are learning tools that provide a clear, supportive, hands-on way for students to connect speech sounds with written graphemes making early literacy learning effective and engaging.

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Word Building Kit (Year 1 and 2)

$16.80
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Supporting Developing Readers Through More Complex Phonics Learning

The Word Building Kit is designed for Year 1 and Year 2 students who are ready to consolidate and extend their phonics knowledge through structured, hands-on literacy instruction.

Featuring an expanded phonics code, additional graphemes, and morphology components, this kit helps students strengthen decoding, encoding, spelling, writing, and word analysis skills.

Perfect for classroom instruction, intervention programs, and literacy support settings.

Why Teachers Love It

✓ Supports more advanced phonics learning

✓ Strengthens orthographic mapping

✓ Reinforces decoding and encoding skills

✓ Introduces more complex spelling patterns

✓ Supports early morphology instruction

✓ Ready to use with no preparation required
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  • Year 1 classrooms
  • Year 2 classrooms
  • Literacy intervention programs
  • Small group instruction
  • Students working with more complex phonics code

Students develop:

  • Advanced phoneme-grapheme mapping
  • Decoding fluency
  • Encoding and spelling accuracy
  • Orthographic mapping of more complex code
  • Morphology understanding
  • Application of affixes and base words

The Word Building Kit supports the explicit teaching of:

  • Base words
  • Inflectional suffixes
  • Word building
  • Word analysis

Including:

  • -s
  • -es
  • -ed
  • -ing
  • -er
  • 8 blank tiles for additional affixes
  • Product of Vowel Valley
  • Balanced magnetic strength
  • Reusable foam magnetic tiles
  • Easy-clean dry-erase surface
Folder
  • closed - A4 - 260mm x 305mm x 1mm
  • open - A3 - 455mm x 305mm
  • weight - 209grams
Magnetic Tiles
  • Magnetic tiles, dry erase surface
  • Foam between magnetic sheet and dry erase surfaces
  • Grid die-cut spacing for easy tile separation
  • 8 x 7 tiles = 56 tiles
  • 1 sheet: 185mm x 162mm x 3mm
  • Weight: 62 grams
  • Each tile: 23mm x 23mm x 3mm
Word Building Kit (Year 1 and 2)
$16.80

TRUSTED BY SCHOOLS AUSTRALIA-WIDE

Why Should Educators Choose The Word Building Kit?

A practical, educator-designed resource for bringing structured literacy instruction to life. This foldable Magnetic Word Building Kit helps learners connect sounds, graphemes, word building, and writing through clear, hands-on practice — minimal preparation for educators and meaningful engagement for students.
Affordability
A high-quality, classroom-ready resource at a considered price point. Designed to make effective multisensory literacy instruction more accessible for schools, teachers, tutors, specialists, and families.
Practicality
Built for real teaching contexts, from Foundation to Year 2 classrooms through to tutoring, intervention, specialist support, and home learning. Easy to introduce, easy to use, and purposeful in daily instruction.
Portability
The light, foldable A4 design makes it simple to store, carry, and move between desks, classrooms, intervention spaces, and home learning environments.
Compatibility
Designed to complement a range of structured literacy approaches, phonics scope and sequence programs, and common instructional routines used across Australia, New Zealand, and other education settings.
Durability
Purposefully made for regular classroom use, with lightweight yet robust materials and easy-to-clean dry erase surfaces that support repeated word building and writing practice.
Engagement
Magnetic surfaces and foam magnetic tiles give learners a tactile, hands-on way to participate in phonics instruction. The design supports easy manipulation, active learning, and organised word building practice.
Adaptability
Flexible enough to support whole-class teaching, small-group instruction, targeted intervention, and gradual release routines. Use it across a range of phonics patterns, word structures, and teaching sequences.
Clarity
A structured layout, clear tile placement areas, grapheme positions, and writing spaces help reduce cognitive load for both educators and learners. Everything has a place, making instruction easier to follow and easier to deliver.
Usability
Ready to use with minimal preparation. Simply open the kit, place the grapheme tiles, and begin teaching — no printing, cutting, laminating, or organising required.

Connecting Sounds To Written Graphemes

Learners connect the sounds in spoken words to the graphemes that represent them in print. Using magnetic tiles and structured placement areas, they can see, hear, and build these connections in a clear, organised way, strengthening reading, spelling, and phonics understanding.

Hands-On Learning That Supports Every Learner

By combining auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning, the kit helps students actively engage with phonics instruction. Magnetic tiles and write-on surfaces support participation, improve retention, and make learning more accessible across a range of learners.

Linking Reading And Spelling

Students practise blending sounds to read and segmenting sounds to spell, moving between decoding and encoding within the same structured workspace. This makes the connection between phonics, word building, reading, and writing more explicit and easier to apply.

Phoneme–Grapheme
Multisensory Engagement
Decoding & Encoding

Trusted By Australian Teachers

Hear from the teachers and literacy leaders who use Soundbase every day.

"These boards are a genuine game changer for our word building. My students love using them and get genuinely excited when they receive a new tile as we introduce each graphemes.The boards themselves are sturdy and exceptionally well constructed, and the magnets are strong and reliable. Tiles stay exactly where they’re placed, which means students can focus on the learning rather than managing materials.They’ve brought a new level of efficiency, engagement, and calm to our sessions—exactly what you want when teaching word building."

Edwina - Year 1 teacher

"The magnetic word building kits have been a wonderful resource for our F-2 students. They allow for quick manipulation of sounds and words to support our Phonics Block. Our students are excited and engaged when using the boards, using the letter tiles to build, sound swap and write new words. This is a great resource to support student learning."

F-2 Teaching Department | Cobden Primary School

"These magnetic whiteboards and movable magnetic letters have been a genuine game changer for our school's UFLI implementation. What once took multiple staff entire holidays to prepare is now ready to go, saving an enormous amount of time. The resources are robust, highly visible, and thoughtfully designed for different year levels, allowing for targeted, explicit instruction rather than a 'one size fits all' approach. An invaluable tool for any school that is committed to high-quality literacy teaching"

Jasmine Cunningham, Literacy Leader | Warrnambool PS

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