Make your letter headings stand out by tracing over the capital and lowercase letters with Wikki Stix... or make the letters entirely out of Wikki Stix. You can twist two Wikkies together to make them heavier and more visible.

Create a picture with Wikki Stix, to represent the beginning sound for a letter, and place it next to the letter heading. For example: Bb (picture of butterfly).

Highlight parts of words with Wikki Stix by "looping" or "tracing". For example:

Phonograms (_ay, _ill, _ock)
Prefixes (re_, dis_, un_)
Blends (br_, gl_, st_)
Vowel Spellings (ai, ea, oo)
Suffixes (_ing, _ly, _tion)

Color code types if words (parts of speech, contractions, homophones) by tracing the word or placing a colorful symbol next to it.

Demonstrate the configuration of a word by looping the shape.

Make Wikki Stix pictures to illustrate word wall words.

Cut a Wikki into shorter lengths and use to show the division of words into syllables.

Show division of compound words.

• Use the word in a sentence, oral or written
  
• Select the correct words for oral cloze activities.
  
• Use exemplars (containing common phonograms) for building word families.
  
• Do a word sort activity
  
• Write words on a grid to be used in "Wordo" (played like Bingo).

• Find a word that rhymes with book.
  
• Find a word that ends with ing.
  
• Find a word with the short sound of 'o'.

Wikki Stix One-of-a-kind Creatables are excellent, too, for young children learning to form letters. They can also be used right on the pages of a Big Book to highlight words and text.

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