I love to work on skills with hands on learning. These are perfect for that. Easy to sort by vowel sounds, then move to writing the names of the objects.

After mastering the alphabet tubs we moved on to these vowel tubs along with the blend and digraph tubs. These were just as enjoyed and valuable to my daughter’s language and phonics learning as the alphabet tubs! I introduced these to my daughter when she was four and now at age 5 she is site word reading and learning to sound out words on her own thanks to the visual and interactive nature of these tubs. Kids just love these little toys and gravitate towards this low demand and tactile learning tool.

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This is excellent to help children understand the difference between CVC words. Without a good understanding of vowel sounds, a child/children will find it difficult to read and spell words correctly. A great way to teach the vowels is to start with the short sounds and introduce the vowels one at a time and then move on to the long vowels. My students love them.

I love these tubs for teaching vowels. There are so many ways that you can use them in the classroom!

I love these tubs! I bought these tubs, the blends and digraphs, and the alphabet tubs for my classroom and tutoring. As a certified reading specialist, I can tell you these tubs work! They are hands-on, engaging, and effective tools for increasing phonemic awareness and phonics skills! My favorite game is to choose two tubs and turn the letter around. The child must listen carefully to hear the sound and sort the sounds without the letter clue. With older kiddos, I love to have them sort the sounds and then write the words on a white board! They love it! Buy them, TODAY!

First, I love the idea of this, and most of the items are good. However, some items barely fit in the containers (the pig, bat, and can are all quite large for the tubs). I cringed when I saw there was an American Flag in the tubs for children to play with. I wish it were a racing or some generic flag instead. My biggest complaint is that the snake and tube are WAY too large to fit it in container, and the GLUE and PAINT are REAL - not plastic items!! I teach 5 & 6 year-olds. I want them to be able to manipulate the items independently. This was intended for centers, yet I cannot allow them to have wood glue, and I don't want to have the paint there either (the small paint discs easily fall out of the container and will break). I love Lakeshore, and so I really expected better quality.

Very attractive for the children. Useful when teaching the connections between concrete objects, its names, the initial sounds and the letters that stand for each... They help the children to concentrate in the task and raise the possibility of remembering everything for a longer period of time...

Had the letter tubs so purchased the vowel tubs. I plan on using them for instruction and center-based learning in the library.

My grandson enjoys these has learned all his vowel sounds and how to spell each item in the tubs....

I love that it comes with a manual that gives ideas on how to use it. I use it often with the I can build simple words! (item TT194 for short vowel sounds). The toys are all super cute and my kids love to manipulate them. Great tool for speech therapies. I also love to use the Hear myself sound phone (tem EE538), to help discriminate the short or long vowels.

I love these! They are really great for my first graders. One way I've used them: I combine the short a and long a tubs and have the children sort. Or combine the short i and short e and have the children sort them. Students love the little objects and are excited to review sounds.