Ready to use. No preparation needed. Engaging, hands-on literacy tools that support explicit phonics instruction. Build strong sound-symbol connections through word building, blending, segmenting, reading, and writing.
Ready to use, high-quality Magnetic Word Building Kits provide learners with a unique balance of structure, support, and engagement. Through hands-on word building, reading, and writing activities, learners develop strong sound-letter connections that support reading, spelling, and writing development.
Magnetic word building kits are durable literacy resources designed for daily use in busy learning spaces. They support explicit, hands-on phonics routines while reducing teacher preparation time.
Visual and tactile features, including magnetic grapheme tiles, colour-coded tile spaces, word building areas, and dotted third handwriting lines, help learners make speech to print connections and develop essential decoding and encoding skills.
Designed for busy educators, and learners in the early years or who need extra support.
Each kit contains an A4 foldable dry erase magnetic folder with 30mm dotted third handwriting lines, one set of suitable foam magnetic grapheme tiles + blank tiles.
Choose your kit. Order. Unpack. Get started. Each kit comes ready to use.
Magnetic Word Building Kits are designed to simplify phonics instruction, providing flexibility across classrooms, intervention and specialist programs, and home learning environments.
Designed for use alongside phonics programs widely implemented in Australian and New Zealand schools, the kits promote continuity and consistency in learning routines that help reduce cognitive load for learners and educators.
Magnetic Word Building Kits are a natural fit with widely adopted phonics programs and instruction already taking place in classrooms, intervention, specialist programs, and home learning environments across Australia and New Zealand.
Sound Base Education was founded by Cathy Gleeson, a primary teacher with over 31 years of experience across early, middle, and upper primary classrooms. Cathy has held roles as a Literacy Leader and Learning Specialist, with a strong focus on structured literacy, evidence-based teaching practices, and reading intervention.
Over the past nine years, her work has centred around the science of reading and learning, supported by extensive professional development including the completion of LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling), Orton-Gillingham training, and the intensive Teaching Students with Dyslexia Tier 3 Intervention course. Cathy's professional pathway reflects a deep commitment to improving literacy outcomes for all students.
Sound Base Education was established to source and provide educators with access to quality, practical, classroom ready resources that support explicit phonics instruction in the first years of school, and reduce educator workload in real education settings.
