Phonics Abacus 🧮 A really simple, inexpensive resource to make that prompts children to really listen to all the sounds within a word and practise spelling them. A great way to develop the tripod grip too 👍🏻 I tied three pieces of string, with a bead on each, onto a bit of cardboard. I chose one colour of bead for the consonants and one colour for the vowel. You could have more lengths of string to build words with more phonemes. For example, children working in Phase 4 you could have 4 bits