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In our children’s department, you will find the following resources to help teachers and parents assist students.

Reading Rocket Kits: These kits help parents and educators prepare children for Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee. Each Reading Rocket Kit contains a set of fiction and nonfiction books as well as three activities to further enhance the reading experience. The kits encourage children to share stories, use their imagination, observe their surroundings and get crafty!  Reading Rocket Kits will help families share the joy of reading while helping to improve literacy achievement.

Literacy Link Activities: These kits help children build language skills with a game and corresponding book.

Hooked on Phonics Sets: We offer a large selection of kits from this popular tool that helps struggling children learn to read.

Reading Center Kits: These great tools help children practice their literacy skills.

Beginner Books: Browse through our large collection of beginner books, including phonics- and sight word based books.

Audio Books: Listening to a story while reading along is a great way for a child to improve reading skills. Check out our collection of books with CDs and our preloaded devices such as Go Readers or Playaways.

Leap Frog Tag Readers: Borrow one of our many Tag Reader books or games to help make learning to read more fun. (Tag Reader Pen not included)

Math in a Bag: Children improve their math skills using the fun tools in these bags.

Hooked on Math Sets: We offer a large selection of kits from this popular tool that helps children improve their math skills.

Math Center Kits: These kits provide more math skill practice.

Science in a Bag: Children improve their science skills using the fun tools in these bags.

Themed Activity Kits: Our TAKits include a selection of books, activities, worksheets, and games all based around a central theme such as bugs, dinosaurs, safety and holidays.

Leap Frog Cartridges: Educational games that can be used in Leap Frog Explorer or LeapPad and LeapPad2.

Flash and Activity Cards: Practice different skills, such as math, foreign languages, spelling and more with our educational flash and activity card sets.

Educational DVDs: Reinforce a new concept by pairing an educational DVD with the lesson.

Educator Resources: Visit us to explore our collection of resources for teachers including MailboxTeacher’s Helper and our Parent/Teacher collection of books.

And BOOKS, of course! 
Our collection includes concept books, easy biographies, non-fiction books and graphic novels for reluctant readers.