AVAILABLE JUNE 2026
Letters & Literacy™
Grow children’s letter sounds and formations side by side with this supplemental literacy program for Pre-K and TK classrooms.
Many children enter kindergarten unprepared for the literacy demands ahead. Letters & Literacy builds phonological awareness, emergent writing, and fine-motor skills together, all rooted in the Science of Reading.
Full program kit includes:
- Activities: Get kids moving with hands-on experiences that make early literacy fun, active, and memorable.
- Manipulatives: Strengthen fine-motor skills while connecting letters, sounds, and early writing.
- Activity Books: Guide children from coloring and drawing to pre-writing with uppercase and lowercase letters.
- Teacher’s Guide: Follow clear, step-by-step instructions with connected lessons differentiated for early and emerging learners.
- Interactive Digital Teaching Tool: Access Teacher’s Guide content, videos, and easy-to-use planning tools to support efficient instruction.
Already own Readiness & Writing? You can upgrade your classroom experience with Literacy Essentials.
Turn hands-on play into memorable learning. These activities and materials make learning fun and effective as children develop readiness, phonological awareness, and motor skills through music, movement, and hands-on fun.
Meet Mat Man®: A Hands-on Learning Creation
Supporting a smooth transition to readiness starts with essential skills, and Mat Man makes it engaging and fun for young learners. Mat Man can help! This buildable classroom friend embodies Learning Without Tears’ unique approach to hands-on learning. By building Mat Man, young learners practice crucial readiness skills, such as sharing, drawing, sequencing, counting, and social-emotional skills.
Mat Man teaches:
- Body awareness
- Sequence skill
- Drawing and prewriting
- Socializing and sharing
- Size recognition
- Building
- Placement
Available in Summer 2026
The Interactive Digital Teaching Tool is your new Pre-K assistant! This all-in-one platform provides online access to teaching tools and resources that enrich your classroom. You can also plan and customize lessons to meet the unique needs of your children.
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Full Kit Includes:
- My First School Book
- Mat Man® and the Great Alphabet Parade
- Letters & Literacy Teacher's Guide
- Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters
- Mat for Wood Pieces
- Laminated Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces
- Slate Chalkboard
- Roll-A-Dough Letters®
- Stamp and See Screen®
- FLIP Crayons®
- Pre-K Name Plates
- Pre-K Color Wall Cards
- Letters to Words Blackboard Set
- Mat Man Poster
- Mat Man Hands
- Sound Around Box
- A-B-C Touch & Flip Cards
- Pop & Flip Sounds™ Board
- Hop & Roll™ Mats
- Interactive Digital Teaching Tool
The Letters & Literacy Teacher’s Guide provides step-by-step instructions teachers need to bring Pre-K and TK literacy learning to life. Each lesson includes differentiation for early and emerging learners, with support for multilingual learners to reach every child.
- Daily Instruction: The Teacher’s Guide offers daily instruction across 36 weeks.
- Foundational Fun: Lessons build phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, emergent writing, and readiness skills.
- Differentiated Instruction: Tailor each lesson with guidance for early and emerging learners.
- Clear, Step-by-Step Design: Each page supports fine motor development with intentional activities that build skills progressively.
- Friendly, Simple Language: Engaging text and illustrations make lessons easy to follow and support motor skill growth.
- Pre-writing then writing: Children need to learn grip and motor control before they can start writing letters. We teach it all in sequence.
When children touch, build, and manipulate, they’re doing more than having fun. They’re making connections that help literacy skills stick. The hands-on, multimodal activities in Letters & Literacy help letters, sounds, and print concepts click with confidence.
Letters & Literacy activities:
- Feature joyful, active games that children love
- Promote foundational skills that grow together
- Make reading, writing, and motor connections
- Include differentiated support for ages 3–5
Pop & Flip™ Sounds Board
Make literacy learning magnetic! Children pop and slide magnets across a double-sided blackboard, discovering rhymes, syllables, phonemes, and letter-sound connections as they build words that POP into place.
Hop & Roll™ Mats
One small step for kids, one giant leap for literacy learning! Children roll the pocket dice, then hop, jump, and giggle their way to fun as they learn about rhymes, syllables, phonemes, and as they develop gross motor skills.
Sound Around Box
This multi-sided box teaches foundational literacy skills and is full of surprises! Children use manipulatives, magnets, and picture tiles to practice rhyming, syllables, onset/rime, initial sounds, and letter–sound connections.
Roll-A-Dough Letters®
Rolling “snakes” with dough and forming capitals on the letter card develops a multitude of skills including fine and gross motor, letter recognition and letter formation skills.
A-B-C Touch & Flip Cards
This delightful pack of letter and picture cards builds children’s letter knowledge and awareness. As they match, flip, and manipulate the cards, they reinforce good letter formation habits and letter-sound recognition.
Already have Readiness & Writing? Enhance your classroom with Literacy Essentials. This addition complements your existing program with new multisensory activities and components for phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge. And the updated teacher’s guide connects these foundations to emergent writing and fine-motor learning for smoother, joyful instruction.
Pop & Flip™ Sounds Board
Make literacy learning magnetic! Children pop and slide magnets across a double-sided blackboard, discovering rhymes, syllables, phonemes, and letter-sound connections as they build words that POP into place.
Hop & Roll™ Mats
One small step for kids, one giant leap for literacy learning! Children roll the pocket dice, then hop, jump, and giggle their way to fun as they learn about rhymes, syllables, phonemes, and as they develop gross motor skills.
Sound Around Box
This multi-sided box teaches foundational literacy skills and is full of surprises! Children use manipulatives, magnets, and picture tiles to practice rhyming, syllables, onset/rime, initial sounds, and letter–sound connections.
A-B-C Touch & Flip Cards
This delightful pack of letter and picture cards builds children’s letter knowledge and awareness. As they match, flip, and manipulate the cards, they reinforce good letter formation habits and letter-sound recognition.
Mat Man and the Great Alphabet Parade
The fun-filled alphabet book provides the starting point for your students’ letter learning journey. Help students conceptualize the alphabet as a collection of letters that represent sounds and make words.
Interactive Digital Teaching Tool
Meet your new Pre-K assistant! This all-in-one digital platform provides online access to teaching tools and resources that enrich your classroom. You can also plan and customize lessons to meet the unique needs of your children.