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Magnetic Poetry Kid’s Magnetic First Words Kit We went to the teachers for help on this one, and they delivered. First Words is a large-sized, simply worded edition of the popular Magnetic Poetry Kit. It’s a great first step in learning about language!
Customer Review: Great educational product!
As an early childhood educator, I know the importance of early literacy skills. My 6 year old daughter uses these magnets to make up her own silly sentences. I would recommend this for kindergarten-1st grade, for preschoolers it will be too frustrating and for older children it will be too easy. I like the variety of words. I rated the durability somewhat low because it would be rather easy to bend the magnet and break it (this has happened before to us with another set), but with a child 5 years old or older you should be able to explain to them not to do that. Yet another reason why this wouldn’t work so great with preschoolers – they may just tear them apart!
Customer Review: great learn to read tool
We used this kit for helping my son learn to read. We started with one word on the board. As he memorized the words, we added them one at a time. After a while, we were able to add words more quickly. When he had lots of words memorized, we started making silly sentences for him to read. Sometimes he makes them for me and sometimes I make them for him. The words are larger and easier to move that the regular magnetic poetry set, but the selection is limited. The kit does not include color names (which we really missed; we made our own magnets for those). Great for beginners. To make really fun poetry, you’ll want to move on to the regular kit.