SCIENCE OF READING PRODUCTS Grades K-3

The Magnetic Word Builder makes learning to read exciting.

Aligned with the science of reading, the Magnetic Word Builder is a versatile, organized tile board that helps students build foundational literacy skills – while having fun!

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Meet the kit

Research shows that students learn to read best with explicit, systematic teaching.
Magnetic Word Builders kits are used by schools to make literacy stick!

  • Evidence-based

    Instructional routines designed to promote foundational reading skills and support orthographic mapping.

  • A space for everything

    Includes a writable, dry-erase surface so students can tackle spelling and letter formation.

  • Organized, self-contained kits

    Students will keep their kits organized by sliding tiles into their places as marked on the trifold.

  • Multimodal learning

    Adaptable materials allow for differentiation based on learning styles and needs.

  • High-quality magnets

    No slipping or sliding. A fully magnetized base and strong magnets keep it all together.

  • Includes teacher’s guide

    A comprehensive guide provides teachers with routines and flexible teaching suggestions.
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When can you use the Magnetic Word Builder?

  • With beginning readers

    Explicit instruction using 
hands-on learning makes it an ideal literacy tool for students Grades K-3

  • With striving readers

    Research indicates that students with reading difficulties benefit from phonics word building skills.

  • Classroom setting

    Use in a classroom or group setting. The included teacher’s guide offers classroom tips.

  • One-on-one setting

    Use for one-on-one instruction, whether in the resource room or as a tutoring device

What educators think

Hear from curriculum coordinators, teachers, and instructors alike
about ReadBright and the Magnetic Word Builder.

  • ★★★★★
    ReadBright is a classroom-tested reading program that progresses smoothly from skill to skill and is cumulative. Moreover, it is both student- and teacher-friendly, making it a must-have for anyone considering a quality early reading program.
    Ann Dershowitz, M.S.Ed.
    Director of Education for Catapult Learning
  • ★★★★★
    I have been a reading specialist for 15 years and I teach in the PTACH program. I am amazed at your skill-based ReadBright books. They are extremely well developed and the students enjoy the stories! Your hard work is definitely evident!
    Rachel Berkowitz, M.S.Ed.
    M.S.Ed.
  • ★★★★★
    Research-based pedagogy and classroom-tested strategies directed the development of the ReadBright program. And it’s a recipe that works! ReadBright helped unlock the gates of a new world for our students: the world of independent & enjoyable reading.
    Michal Falk
    Curriculum Advisor, Yeshiva Shagas Aryeh, NJ
  • ★★★★★
    ReadBright Phonics Program uses research-based strategies for teaching reading and writing, along with multisensory techniques that support children’s active learning. This is absolutely a choice program!
    Rochel Lazewnik
    Ph.D, CCC-SLP

Choose from 4 kits

Explore our range of Magnetic Word Builders for every age and stage of reading.

K - Grade 1: Set A with Pictures
K - Grade 1: Set A
Grades 1-2: Set A
Grades 2+: Set A

Magnetic Word Builder 
K - Grade 1: Set A with Pictures

Regular price $302.50
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  • Fun for Students
  • Easy for Educators
  • Backed by Science

Develop alphabet knowledge, short vowel words (CVC), doublets, digraphs, qu blend and long vowel words with the silent e (VCe). Pictures are used to support letter sound knowledge.

GET EXPERT ASSISTANCE. Speak to a Readbright education expert to discuss integrating the Magnetic Word Builder with your existing literacy curriculum. Call 732.569.0699 or email us: read@readbright.com
  • Magnetic Word Builder 
K - Grade 1: Set A
  • Magnetic Word Builder 
K - Grade 1: Set A
  • Magnetic Word Builder 
K - Grade 1: Set A
  • Magnetic Word Builder 
K - Grade 1: Set A
  • Magnetic Word Builder 
K - Grade 1: Set A
  • Magnetic Word Builder 
K - Grade 1: Set A

Magnetic Word Builder 
K - Grade 1: Set A

Regular price $382.50
Unit price per
Set
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  • Fun for Students
  • Easy for Educators
  • Backed by Science

Develop alphabet knowledge, short vowel words (CVC), doublets, digraphs, qu blend and long vowel words with the silent e (VCe).

GET EXPERT ASSISTANCE. Speak to a Readbright education expert to discuss integrating the Magnetic Word Builder with your existing literacy curriculum. Call 732.569.0699 or email us: read@readbright.com
  • Magnetic Word Builder Grades 1-2: Set B
  • Magnetic Word Builder Grades 1-2: Set B
  • Magnetic Word Builder Grades 1-2: Set B
  • Magnetic Word Builder Grades 1-2: Set B
  • Magnetic Word Builder Grades 1-2: Set B

Magnetic Word Builder Grades 1-2: Set B

Regular price $302.50
Unit price per
Set
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  • Fun for Students
  • Easy for Educators
  • Backed by Science

Enhance alphabet knowledge, short vowel words (CVC), doublets, digraphs, qu blend and long vowel words with the silent e (VCe). Build words with trigraphs, suffixes, sticky sounds, long vowel teams, r-controlled vowels and diphthongs.

GET EXPERT ASSISTANCE. Speak to a Readbright education expert to discuss integrating the Magnetic Word Builder with your existing literacy curriculum. Call 732.569.0699 or email us: read@readbright.com
  • Magnetic Word Builder Grades 2+: Set C
  • Magnetic Word Builder Grades 2+: Set C
  • Magnetic Word Builder Grades 2+: Set C
  • Magnetic Word Builder Grades 2+: Set C
  • Magnetic Word Builder Grades 2+: Set C
  • Magnetic Word Builder Grades 2+: Set C

Magnetic Word Builder Grades 2+: Set C

Regular price $307.50
Unit price per
Set
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  • Fun for Students
  • Easy for Educators
  • Backed by Science

Enhance alphabet knowledge, short vowel words (CVC), doublets, digraphs, qu blend and long vowel words with the silent e (VCe). Build words with trigraphs, suffixes, sticky sounds, long vowel teams, r-controlled vowels and diphthongs.

GET EXPERT ASSISTANCE. Speak to a Readbright education expert to discuss integrating the Magnetic Word Builder with your existing literacy curriculum. Call 732.569.0699 or email us: read@readbright.com

What’s in the kit?

Everything your students need for cumulative, structured phonics lessons.

  • Teacher’s Guide

    Comprehensive guide with routines, strategies, and examples.
    Download here

  • Sturdy Trifold Board

    Heavy-duty, fully magnetized, self-contained trifold with tile spaces grouped by skill for easy access.

  • Grapheme Tiles

    More than 75 letter tiles with essential phonics patterns, including digraphs, suffixes, and much more!

  • Activity Insert

    Flexible magnetic insert supports orthographic mapping routines and include a dry-erase writing area.

  • Other Tiles

    Blue dot mapping magnets, heart tiles for non-decodable words, a Magic e Wand and blank tiles.

*Contents vary per board level

How you can use it

The Magnetic Word Builder supports both structured and open-ended
activities, and can complement any phonics curriculum.​

  • Orthographic Mapping

    Research shows it is critical that students learn to connect sounds to letters. Instructions are provided for the Sound It! Spell It! Write it! routine to help promote orthographic mapping.

  • Word Chains

    By creating word chains in the Sound it! Spell it! Change it! routine, students learn essential phonics skills such as oral blending, oral segmentation and encoding.

  • With Your Curriculum

    Aligns with all reading programs. To discuss integration with your existing program, give our team a call: 732.569.0699

ReadBright: a fun and effective structured literacy program.

Nationally recognized reading specialist Sara Gross, M.S.Ed., has been helping young students grasp foundational reading skills and learn to love reading for over thirty years. Now, through the ReadBright program, she makes her decades of expertise and multimodal reading techniques readily available to other teachers and tutors across hundreds of schools and districts.

ReadBright is based on the latest pedagogical research and incorporates evidence-based practices. By providing educators with fun, colorful, and engaging materials and methods, ReadBright creates fluent readers and instills in them a lifelong joy for reading. The program has been successfully implemented in schools and learning environments across the United States. It has been employed with resounding results in general and remedial classrooms, in concentrated learning groups, and in one-on-one settings.

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