Acorn Learning Emerging Learner Blending Board
Plant the seeds of reading success with the Acorn Learning Emerging Learner Blending Board—a hands-on phonics tool thoughtfully designed for Kindergarten, Grade 1 and students with diverse learning needs.
Created by an experienced Canadian educator, this compact, double-sided board supports evidence-based structured literacy instruction while making early reading practice accessible, engaging and developmentally appropriate.
Larger foam magnetic tiles are easier for little hands to grasp, while the simplified tile set reduces visual clutter and cognitive overload. Students can focus on connecting sounds and letters, blending words, mapping sounds, practising heart words and building confidence as early readers.
Skills Students Can Practise
- Grapheme-phoneme correspondence
- Blending and segmenting VC and CVC words
- Building words with digraphs
- Phoneme-grapheme mapping
- Orthographic mapping
- Decoding and encoding
- Decodable word building
- Heart word practice
- Handwriting and sentence writing
Thoughtfully Designed for Emerging Learners
One side of the board includes organized spaces for magnetic phonics tiles, word-mapping boxes and a handwriting line. The reverse side features an alphabet chart and blank printing lines for additional handwriting and sentence practice.
The larger, thicker foam tiles support developing fine-motor skills, while the streamlined tile collection allows students to work with less distraction and frustration.
What’s Included
Each Acorn Learning kit includes:
- One 9" × 12" double-sided magnetic whiteboard
- High-quality, stain-resistant PET laminate
- 54 foam magnetic phonics tiles
- Four blank tiles for flexible instruction
- One magnetic whiteboard marker with a mini eraser cap
- One whiteboard eraser
- One durable zippered mesh storage bag
Perfect For
- Kindergarten and Grade 1 classrooms
- Structured literacy instruction
- Small-group phonics lessons
- Reading intervention
- Tutoring sessions
- Special education support
- Homeschool learning
- One-to-one practice at home
Whether you are a classroom teacher, tutor, reading interventionist or parent, the Acorn Learning Emerging Learner Blending Board provides a practical and reusable way to make every phonics lesson count.
Teaching literacy is planting a seed. The Acorn Learning board helps it grow.
